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Old English Dictionary Entry

Tó-gangan

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1 tó-gangan

p. -géng; pp. -gangen. I. to go in different directions, to part :-- Æfter ðon ðe wit nú betweoh unc tógongenne (tógangne, Bd. M. 372, 3) beóþ postyuam ab invicem digressi fuerimus, Bd. 4, 29; S. 607, 20. Ðá hié betwih him tógangen (-gangende. Bd. M. 372, 20) wǽron digredientes ab invicem, S. 607, 36. II. to go away, pass away :-- Ne tógongeþ gumena hwylcum eáþe ðæt ic ðǽr ymb sprice what I speak of does not easily pass away from any man (it is a bow that speaks, and the reference is to a wound from a poisoned arrow), Exon. Th. 405, 30; Rä. 24, 10.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚩ-ᚷᚪᛝᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Exon.
Exeter Book
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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