Dǽl-nimend

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - dǽl-nimend

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-nymend, -neomend, es;

dǽl-nimend
m. [nimende, part. of niman to take]. I. a taker of a part, a sharer, partaker, participator; partĭceps :-- Ðæt se Hǽlend dǽlnimend wǽre úre deádlícnysse that the Saviour was a partaker of our mortality, Homl. Th. i. 36, 33. Se níþfulla is ðæra deófla dǽlnimend the envious is a participator with devils, i. 606, 5. Ic eom dǽlneomend ðe heom ondrǽdaþ ðé particeps ego sum omnium timentium te, Ps. Th. 118, 63. Tofóran eallum his dǽlnymendum on ðære menniscnysse before all his participators in humanity, Homl. Th. ii. 230, 26. II. in grammar.-A participle; particĭpium :-- Participium is dǽlnimend: he nimþ ǽnne dǽl of naman, and óðerne of worde a participle is a taker of parts: it takes one part from a noun, and the other from a verb, Ælfc. Gr. 5; Som. 3, 40. Sume adverbia cumaþ of dǽlnimendum some adverbs come from participles, 38; Som. 41, 11. dæl-nimend
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