Up-gang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Up-gang

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: up, I. a 1 :-- Hí forwerndon heom ǽgðer ge upganges ge wæteres, Chr. 1046; Erl. 171, 5. (b) from the coast inland,

Definitions

1 up-gang

m. I. a going up, rising of a heavenly body :-- Sunnon upgong æt middan sumere ortus solis solstitialis, Bd. 5, 12; S. 627, 34. Æfter sunnan upgonge, L. Alf. 25; Th. i. 50, 20. Ǽr sunnan upgange, Lchdm. ii. 306, 17. Æt sunnan upgonge, Nar. 27, 17. Fram sunnan upgange óð hire setlgang, Ps. Th. 49, 2: 112, 3. Uppgange, 106, 3. Tóforan mónan upgonge, Nar. 13, 9. Hí (the constellations of the zodiac) gefyllaþ twá tída mid hyra upgange oððe nyðergange, Lchdm. iii. 246, 8. II. a going up, (a) to land from sea, a landing. an incursion :-- Hí námon him wintersettl on Temesan ... Ðá æfter middan wintra hí námon ǽnne upgang út þurh Ciltern and swá tó Oxneforda. 1009; Erl. 143, 9. III. a way of going up :-- Hié gerýmdon ðone upgang and geworhtan, Blickl. Homl. 201, 17. [O. H. Ger. úf-gang ortus: Ger. auf-gang: Icel. upp-gangr: Dan. op-gang ascent; stairs.]

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ᚢᛈ-ᚷᚪᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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