A-gitan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - a-gitan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

a-gitan
to destroy. Substitute: ā-gītan, -giéta. i. -gētan; p. te To waste, destroy :-- Hwā mīn fromcynn āgētte eall of earde, Rä. 80, 8. Sumne sceal gār āgētan, Vy. 16. Hī woldon heafolan gescēnan, gārum āgētan, An. 1145. Þǣr læg secg mænig gārum āgēted, Ædelst. IS. III. ā-gīta. a-gitan,agitan

Related words: ā-geótan,

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