Ge-wuna

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wuna
adj. Dele last reference, and add: I. of persons (or things personified), accustomed, used:--Ic mé, swá swá ic gewuna wæs, tó middes heora gemengde, Hml. S. 23 b, 372. Hý nán licgende feoh ne métton, swá hý ǽr gewuna (bewuna, , cf. 16, where Thorpe prints gewuna) wǽron, Ors. 3, 7; Bos. 61, 31. I a. accustomed to, with dat. or dat. infin.:--Sincalda sǽ . . . æflástum gewuna, Exod. 473. Seó gyfu ne bið oncnáwen of þǽre medemnesse, ac gewuna is hí tó getácnigenne of þǽre sáwle dǽdum, Hml. S. 23 b, 241. Forgeafa gewuna wæs him énne of ðǽm gebundenum dimittere solebat illis unum ex uinctis, Mk. L. R. 15, 6. Ne oferfar þú ná Iordanen, swá swá gewuna syut of eówrum mynstrum tó farenne, Hml. S. 23 b, 614. II. of things, customary, usual:--Gewearð se micla moncwealm on Róme; ná swá hit gewuna (or substantive?) is, of untídlican gewideran ingens Romam pestilentia corripuit; non, ut adsolet, temporum turbata temperies, Ors. 3, 3; S. 102, 5. ¶ the word seems declined in:--Obtani geára gewunan oððe gewunede, Wrt. Voc. ii. 65, 3. v. un-gewuna, be-wuna. ge-wuna

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