Ge-langian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-langian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-langian
Add: I. to call, summon. (1) absolute:--Cieo and cio ic gelangige oððe gelaðige, Ælfc. Gr. 220, 11. (2) to send for a person, call a meeting:--Ic áxie þone intingan hwí þú mé gelangodest interrogo quam ob causam aceessistis me, Hml. S. 10, 135. Gelangige (convocet) se abbod ealle gegæderunge, R. Ben. I. 17, 12. Hét se bisceop hí gelangian, Hml. S. 2, 74: 23, 761: 34, 204. (3) to send for a person to come to another. (a) with dat.:--Gelangiað mé ðone martyr Mercurium, Hml. Th. i. 450, 31. (b) with tó, (α) preceding the dat.:--Gelanga hine tó þé accessi eum, Hml. S. 10, 142. Hí gelangigan hider tó þám bisceope, 23, 680. Hé hét gelangian ðá preóstas tó his andwerdnysse, Hml. Th. ii. 310, 11. (β) following the dat.:--Gelangode hé him tó his ercediácon, Hml. S. 31, 1387. Hé hét him gelangian þá gelýfedan men tó, 3, 94. Hé hét gelangian him tó ealle ðá burhwara tógædere, 23, 20. II. to get hold of:--Gif hit þeóf beó, and gif hé hine binnan twelf mónðum gelangian mæge, ágife hine tó rihte, Ll. Th. i. 268, 11. [O. H. Ger. ge-langón to attain.]

Related words: ge-lengan. ge-langian

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