Ge-nugan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-nugan
pres. hit -neah [Goth. ganah] To suffice, to be sufficient, not to be wanting; sufficere :-- Gif us on ferðe geneah if in our soul we be not wanting [if it is sufficient to us in our soul], Exon. 93 a; Th. 348, 29; Sch. 35: 90 a; Th. 337, 26; Gn. Ex. 70. Nǽnig mennisc tunge ne geneah ðæs acendan engles godcund mægen to gesecgenne no human tongue is sufficient to tell the divine virtue of that begotten messenger, Blickl. Homl. 165, 5.

Related words: be-nugan, nugan. ge-nugan

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