Cwiddian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cwiddian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cweddian, cwydian (

cwiddian
q. v. in Dict.); p. ode, ede To say:--Cwiddiaþ (cwyddiaþ, An. Ox. 1881) l secgcað contendunt, dicunt, Hpt. Gl. 450, 70. Þá hí cweddiað (cwyddiaþ, An. Ox. 1953) quam dicunt, 452, 43. Cwedd(iað), cwyddiað ferunt, dicunt, 504, 60. Befrán hé hú woruldmenn be him cwyddedon . . . His apostoli him andwyrdon: 'Sume men cwyddiað (cf. sume men cweðað, 364, 16) þæt ðú sý Jóhannes, Hml. Th. i. 366 5-10. [O. H. Ger. [harm-]quetón.]

Related words: be-, hearm-, teón-, wiþer-cwid[d]ian. cwiddian

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