Be-sittan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - be-sittan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

be-sittan
Add:-- Besitt obsidet, Scint. 148, 12. Ðá hellican gástas besittað þæs mannes forðsíð, Hml. Th. i. 410, 3. þá þe ꝥ lí besǽton, Hml. S. 10, 59. þá hǽþenan hæfdon hí besetene, 25, 391. [Goth. bi-sitan: O. Frs. bi-sitta to possess: O. Sax. bi-sittian to besiege: O. L. Ger. bi-sittian circumsedere, circumdare: O. H. Ger. pi-sizzen possidere.] be-sittan
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