Ge-weccan

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-weccan
I. to rouse from sleep :-- In scip slépende from frohtendum gewaehten wæs in nave dormiens a periclitantibus excitatus, Mt. p. 15, 18. I a. to rouse from the sleep of death, raise the dead :-- Foerende ðá deáda gewæcca dohter uadens mortuam suscitare filiam :-- Mk. p. 3, 7. Geweht ꝥ mǽden suscitans puellam, Mt. p. 16, 3. II. to excite, stir up :-- Ðá biscopas gewehtun (-wæhton, L.) ðone ðreót pontifices concitauerunt turbam, Mk. R. 15, 11. ge-weccan
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