Ge-stincan

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

ge-stincan

Add :-- We oft gestincað mid úrum nosum ðæt wé mid úrum eágum gesión ne magon rem, quam oculis non cernimus, plerumque odore praevidemus, Past. 433, 20. Hi tugon heorn tó and gestuncon þá swétnesse þæs wundorlican stences suavitatem mirifici odoris trahebant, Gr. D. 236, 25. Swylce we . . . gestincen (odoramus) þá æppla . . . þéh hé hí ne cúðe gestincan (odorare), 256, 18. Heó cwæð ꝥ heó nǽfre ǽr náht swilces ne gestunce, S. 4, 349. [O.H.Ger. ge-stinchan to perceive by smell. '] ge-stincan