Tídan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tídan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: 493.] v. ge-, mis-tídan; tídung. tidan

Definitions

1 tídan

p. de To betide, befall, happen:--Bisceopum gebyreþ ðæt symle mid heom wunian wel geþungene witan, . . . ðæt heora gewitan beón on ǽghwylcne tíman, weald hwæt heom tíde, L. I. P. 10; Th. ii. 316, 25. Gif ðan biscop[e] hwaet tíde, Cod. Dip. B. iii. 75, 6, 10, 13. [Þa tidde hit on an Wodnesdei, þet se king rad in his derfald, Chr. 1123; Erl. 249, 30. Ne tyt þe no part wiþ me, Marg. 308. What shulde us tyden ? Chauc. M. of L. 337. Som tymes hym tit (bitit, B-text) to folwen hus kynde, Piers P. 14, 213, C-text. A merueillouse meteles me tydde to dreme, 11, 5, B-text. Tydyn idem quod happyn, Prompt. Par

Runic Inscription

ᛏᛁᛞᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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