Hyngrian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hyngrian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: hyngran; Related words: ge-hyngran. hyngrian

Definitions

1 hyngrian

p. ode, ede To hunger. I. with nom. of person :-- Eádige synd gé ðe hingriaþ nú beati qui nunc esuritis, Lk. Skt. 6, 21. Eádige ða ðe rihtwísnesse hingriaþ beati qui esuriunt justitiam, Mt. Kmbl. 5, 6. Hingrian is of untrumnysse ðæs gecynnes esurire ex infirmitate naturæ est, Bd. 1, 27; S. 494, 14. Hwænne gesáwe wé ðé hingrigendne quando te vidimus esurientem, Mt. Kmbl. 25, 37. Ðane hingriendan famelicum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 27. Gé géfon hingrendum hláf, Exon. 27 b; Th. 83, 12; Cri. 1355. God gefylþ ða hingrigendan mid his gódum, Homl. Th. i. 202, 35. II. with dat. or acc. of person :-- Siððan him hingrode afterwards he hungered, 166, 12. Him nán þing ne hingrode, 168, 19. Hine hingrede esuriit, Lk. Skt. 4, 2. Mé hingrode esurivi, Mt. Kmbl. 25, 35. Ðá ongan hyne syððan hingrian postea esuriit, 4, 2. [Piers P. þe hungreþ: Goth. huggrjan impers. with acc.: O. Sax. gihungrian: O. Frs. hungera: Icel. hungra: O. H. Ger. hungarian pers. and impers. with acc. esurire: Ger. hungern.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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