Ge-earnian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-earnian

Add: I. to deserve, merit. (1) with acc. :-- Hé him sylfum réþne dóm geearnaþ and begyteþ, Bl. H. 95, 34. Gefeán . . . þe þú ǽr on worlde mid geleáfan tó mé . . . geeamodest, 63, 29. Nis nán tweó ꝥ hé forgifnesse syllan nelle þám þe hié geearnian willaþ, 65, 9. (2) with clause :-- Ic þé lǽre þæt þú hospcwide ne fremme . . . þonne þú geearnest ꝥ þé bið éce líf seald, El. 526. Þíne heortan tó rǽde gecyr and geearna ꝥ þíne béna sýn Gode andfenge, Bl. H. 113, 27. Geearnian wé ꝥ úre se ýtmesta dæg sý engla gefeá, 101, 34. Þ UNCERTAIN gé mid eówrum ǽhtum geearnian ꝥ gé þone écan gefeán begytan mótan. 53, 29. Ǽghwylc man sceal on worlde geearnian ꝥ him ꝥ gód móre tó écum médum gegangan, 101, 17. Gehearnian, Angl. xii. 514, 28. (3) absolute :-- Swá hé hér geearnað, Kr. 109. Swá hí geearnedan. Ps. Th. 78, 13. For þá óðre swá hý geearnian, Ll. Th. i. 222, 21. Swá wíte swá wuldor swé wé nú geearnian willaþ, Bl. H. 23, 7. I a. to deserve of (tó) a person, (1) with acc. :-- Tó ðǽm ðe þone écean éðel mid móde and mid mægene tó Gode geearniað. Bl. H. 209, 25. (2) with gen. : -- Gif ic tó þisum þe mé swencað þæs geearnod hæbbe, Ps. Th. 7, 3. (3) absolute :-- Him swá leánian swá hé hire tó geearnud hæfde, Cht. Th. 202, 22. Mid wyrsan leáne þonne hé tó him geearnod hæfde. Ors. 5, 4; S. 224, 33. II. to earn, gain by labour, acquire :-- Þonne geearnige wé ús heofena ríce, Angl. xii. 514, 33. þurh ꝥ hé geearnode him þá gife Háliges Gástes, Bl. H. 113, 32. Þ UNCERTAIN man mid mándǽdum him sylfum geearnige edwit . . . mid gódum dǽdum geearnige him þá écean ræste, 101, 24-26. Folgere gebyreð ꝥ hé on twelf mónðum . II. æceras geearnige (habeat) . . . gyf hé máre geearnian mæig (deservit) him bið sylfum fremu. Ll. Th. i. 438, 4-7. Þ UNCERTAIN wé þurh ꝥ gegearnian úra synna forlǽt-nesse. Bl. H. 35, 36. Ðá wolde hé geearnian him hereword (adquirere sibi laudem), Chr. 1009 ; P. 138, note 9. Fram Gode ná mæg gegearnian mereri) ꝥ hé bitt, Scint. 45, 2. Geearnian, Bl. H. 25, 22 : 17, 21. On þisse sceortan tíde geearnian éce ræste, 83, 2 : in, 3. Hé gǽþ . . . Drihtne tó geearnienne medome folc, 165, 15. Þ UNCERTAIN wǽron geearnode ut (praemia) promerentur, An. Ox. 5421. in Dict. ge-earnian

Related words: ge-arnian