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Wagian

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1 wagian

p. ode To move (intrans.). I. to wag, wave, shake, move backwards and forwards :-- Hé mihte hearpian ðæt se wudu wagode, Bt. 35, 6; Fox 166, 32. Ða wudubeámas wagedon and swegdon, Dóm. L. 7. Wagedan búta, Exon. Th. 436, 25; Rä. 55, 6. Hreád ðæt wagende, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 12, 20. II. of that which threatens to fall, to shake, totter :-- Hornsalu wagiaþ, weallas beofiaþ. Exon. Th. 383, 10; Rä. 4, 8. Wagaþ, áslád and gefióll labat, Wrt. Voc. ii. 50, 62. Weagat, 112, 43. Wagiende nutabunda, 77, 75: 60, 57. Ðý wagigendan nutabunto, 83, 71. III. to shake, be loose, nec dentes illius moti sunt. Deut. 34, 9. Wið tóþa sáre and gyf hý wagegen (wagigan, wagion, ). Lchdm. i. 126, 15. [Ðe se is eure wagiende, O. E. Homl. ii. 175, 19. Deor gunnen waȝeȝen UNCERTAIN (pleoye, 2nd MS.), Laym. 26941. O. H. Ger. wagón to be moved.]
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ᚹᚪᚷᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.
German
L.
Latin
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

Works & Authors

Bt.
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiæ (OE translation by Alfred)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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