Old English Dictionary Entry

Wénunga

Part of speech: (-inga) ; Related words: Perhaps, haply, by chance

Definitions

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1 wénunga

ad :-- Wénunge (-a) farsan, forsitan, fortassis, fortasse, Ælfc. Gr. 38 ; Zup. 229, 1: Wrt. Voc. ii. 150, 23. Wénunga forsitan, Ps. Spl. 80, 13. Wénunga hine hig for-wandiaþ, ðonne hig hine geseóþ forsitan cum hunc uiderint uerebuntur, Lk. Skt. 20, 13. Ne hit nǽfre næs tó geopenigenne búton wénunga hwilc munuc út fóre unless it happened that a monk had to go out, Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 104. Ðe læs wénunga ne forte, Lk. Skt. 14, 8. Nymðe mé Drihten gefultumede, wénincga mín sáwl sóhte helle nisi quia Dominus adjuvasset me, paulominus habitaverat in inferno anima meat, Ps. Th. 93, 16. Woenunga forte, Mk. Skt. Lind. 11, 13: Lk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 9, 13. Woenunge, Mk. Skt. Lind. 14, 2 : forsitan, Jn. Skt. Lind. 5, 46. Woeninga, Ps. Surt. 123, 4: 138, 11.

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Runic Inscription

ᚹᛖᚾᚢᛝᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Gr.: Ælfric's Grammar
Jn.: Gospel of St. John (OE translation)
Lk.: Gospel of St. Luke (OE translation)
Mk.: Gospel of St. Mark (OE translation)
Ps.: Psalms (OE)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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