Haga

Old English Dictionary Entry

Haga

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: 86, 26 : Th. Chart. 569, 2, 5 : 514, 13 : Cod. Dipl. ii. 150, 5, 11. Ðis syndon ðæs hagan gemǽru

Definitions

1 haga

m. A place fenced in, an enclosure, a haw, a dwelling in a town :-- Haga sæpem, Mk. Skt. Lind. 12, 1. Se haga binnan port ðe Ægelríc himsylfan getimbrod hæfde the messuage within the town that Ægelric had built himself, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. ithose are the boundaries of the messuage [in the previous part of the charter the gift is spoken of as unam curtem], iii. 240, 18. Ða hagan ealle ðe hé be westan cyrcan hæfde all the messuages that he had west of the church, Th. Chart. 303, 10. Ǽnne hagan on porte curtem unum in supradicta civitate, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. ihaga solet appellari, vi. 134, 24; cf. 135, 14, 25. Tó hagan þrungon they pressed to the entrenchment, Beo. Th. 5913; B. 2960 : Beo. Th. 5777; B. 2892. [Chauc. hawe yard : in Kentish dialect haw a yard, or enclosure : Icel. hagi a hedged field, a pasture.] DER. bord-, cumbol-, fǽr-, swín-, turf-, wíg-haga. haga,-haga

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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