Wana

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wana

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words: wana ;

Definitions

1 wana

m. I. want, lack, absence :-- Mé ys feós- wana deest mihi pecunia, Ælfc. Gr. 32 ; Zup. 202, 12. Hláfes wæs wana panis deerat, Gen. 47, 13. Ðonne wana (wona, Hatt. MS. ) bið ðæs ðe hié habban woldon hae cum desunt, Past. 18 ; Swt. 126, 22. Hit nan mon ne mæg eall habban, ðæt him ne sié sumes þinges wana, Bt. 34, 9; Fox 146, 19. Ðu mǽnst gif ðé ǽnies willan wana biþ, II, I ; Fox 30, 22: 26, 1; Fox 90, 22 : 29, I; Fox 102, 18. Ðonne is sum gód full ǽlces willan and nis nánes gódes wana, 34, I; Fox 134, 27 : Homl. Th. i. 272, 13: ii. 400, 11: Ps. Th. 33, 9: Shrn. 202, 11. Gif hwæm ðara twégra hwæðeres wana biþ, Bt. 36, 3; Fox 176, 7. Ðam bið gomenes wana ðe ða earfeða dreógeþ, Exon. Th. 183, 17; Gú. 1328. Mé is wana æt ðam scýrgesceatte ðus micelys ðe míne foregengan hæfdon, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 327, 4. Swá ic feós bidde swá ic wanan hæbbe ðæs ðe mé N. behét (I have not got what N. promised me), L. O. 10; Th. i. 182, 7. I a. in connection with numerals. adj. III a :-- Hire daga rím gefylled wæs, ðæt is ánes geáres wana sixtigra wintra (there wanted one year of sixty; undesexaginta annorum), Bd. 3, 24; S. 557, 6 note. II. want of necessaries, lack, want, defect :-- Dispendium, i. damnum, impedimentum, defectio, periculum, detrimentum æfwerdla, wonung, wom, wana, vel hénþa. Wrt. Voc. ii. 140, 69. Wanan inopiam (cum panis copia plebis inopiam refocillantes, Aid. 53), Hpt. Gl. 497, 26. [Ðet ich þurh to muche wone ne falle i fulðe of sunne . . . ðet ich mote underuon boðe wone and weole þe ine cwemnesse, O. E. Homl. i. 213, 28-32. And tah þu wone hefdest oðer drehdest ani derf, H. M. 29, 8. Uor wone of witnesse, A. R. 68, 8.]

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