Á-windan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - á-windan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- á-windan
- Add: I. trans. To twist, plait, weave:--Áuundun intexunt, Txts. 68, 507. Áwunden, Wrt. Voc. ii. 45, 49. Áuunden torta, Txts. 100, 985. Áuundenre suipan verbere torto, 104, 1051. Hrægl of olfenda hǽrum áwunden, Bl. H. 169, 2. Hróf mid gyrdum áwunden culmen uirgis contextum, Bd. 3, 10; Sch. 234, 6. Ðý áwundenan ryfte plumario, Wrt. Voc. ii. 77, 15. Áwundne contexta, 20, 31. Áwundene, An. Ox. 254. II. intrans. (1) to slip away:--Út áwundene gylt oþþe út áslidene synne prolapsum nefas, Germ. 388, 58. (2) to become weak (?):--Þá handa áwindaþ (-swindaþ? Goth us-windan to plait: O. H. Ger. ar-wintan reverti, redire.] a-windan