Ge

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge
Add: I. connecting two words or clauses, and (1) alone :-- Mannes heáfod ge þā sculdro magan in, Bl. H. 127, 9. Þæfian mid lufe ge mid lāþe, 45, 8. Þæs bysceopes līf on bysceophāde ge ǣr bysceophāde cujus uiri et in episcopatu et ante episcopatum uita, Bd. 4, 6; Sch. 382, 7. (2) with eác :-- Hit God wrecende wæs on him selfum . . . , ge eác (ac) . . . ealle eorþan wæstmbǣro gelytlade, Ors. 2, l ; S. 58, 19. Be þisse ondweardan tīde, ge eác be þǣre tōweardan, Bl. H. 15, 4. (2 a) where the two words (clauses) are connected with others :-- Þēnode Willferd þone bysceophād on Eoforwīcceastre, and eác swȳlce (nec non et) on eallum Norþanhymbrum, ge eác (sed et) on Pehtum, Bd. 4, 3; Sch. 349, 9. I a. where the second clause gives an extreme case, even :-- Wē gehiérdon betueoxn eów unryhthǣmed, ge suā unryht suā wē furdum betwuxn hǣdnum monnum ne hiérdon auditur inter vos fornicatio, et talis fornicatio qualis nec inter gentes, Past. 211, 8. Him bid leófre dæt hē secge . . . ge deáh hē nyte hwæt hē sōdes secge, 217, 15. Hē līd inne mōnad, ge hwīlum twēgen (sometimes even as long as two months), Ors. l, I; Swt. 20, 21. Swā ꝥ þā hǣdenan de rador gelīfdan. Oft ge þūsend manna ætgædere gelīfde, Ll. Th. ii. 372, 17. ¶ ge furþum even :-- Ge furþon etenim, Ps. Th. 40, 9. Bió dē unīde tō clipianne, ge furdum dīna āgna sprǣca, Past. 385, 11 : 241, 1. Hē hēt ofsleán ealle þā wīsestan witan, ge furþon his āgene mōdor . . . ge furdon his āgen wīf hē ofslōg. Bt. 16, 4; F. 58, 6-8: 31, 1; F. 112, 14: 11, 1; F. 32, 26. Wyrta eft onginnad seárian, and swā eall nȳtenu and fugelas; ge furdum manna līchaman forealdiad, Solil. 4, 10, 7. Þæt ic lufige ge furdum on þeófum quas amo etiam in latronibus, 16, 13. II. where ge introduces the first word or clause, and is followed by (1) ge as a connective, both . . . and . . . :-- Ge . . . ge tam . . . quam. An. Ox. 2745 : 8, 281. Is micel unrōtness ge of dīnum yrre, ge of dīnum gnornunga. Bt. 5, l ; F. 10, 24. Ge on lande, ge on ōþrum þingum, ge on ōþrum gestreónum, Bl. H. 51, 7. Hē ge his þeóde, ge eác þām cynnum Scotta and Pehta, ge mid his līfes bysene, ge mid lāre, ge mid ealdorlicnessa dreá, ge mid ārfæstnesse his sylena swīde brīcsade, Bd. 3, 27; Sch. 322, 8-16. (la) ge . . . ge eác :-- Ge hēr on worlde, ge eác on þǣre tōweardan, Bl. H. 53, 20. Ge ꝥ hié him selfum heora synna bebeorgaþ, ge eác ōþre syngiende rihtaþ, 63, 24. (2) and :-- Hī hit eall ālugon, ge wed, and eác āþas, Chr. 947 ; P. 112, 25. Hē geleornade ge hwæs hē God bæd and tō him wilnade, and ꝥ þe his bēne gehȳrede wǣron didicerat et quid ille petisset, et quia petita inpetrasset, Bd. 3, 27; Sch. 321, 13. ge,ge-
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