Geong
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - geong
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- geong
- Add: I. of age. (1) applied to persons:--Geong puber, Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 72. Iung adultus, 3, 71. Hé wæs wintrum geong and on his þeáwum eald, Gr. D. 219, 3. Gewiton ealdgesíðas swylce geong manig, B. 854. Ongit, guma genga, El. 464. Cwæð Salomon tó iongum monnum: 'Ðú gionga (adolescens),' Past. 385, 10. (1 a) translating words that express the characteristics of youth:--Ꝥ iunge tenerrima (virgo), An. Ox. 4119. Swá swá beardleás, swylce geongum hægstealde ut effebo hircitallo, i. sine barba, 3476. Iunge (beardleás) heápas inuestes (i. sine barba) cateruas, 2876. (2) applied to personal attributes, youthful:--Iunges cildhádes rudis infantine, An. Ox. 2275. Fram þǽre sylfan iungan mearunesse ah ipsa rudi (cunabulorum) teneritudine, 1491. Gebyrdtída iungan iugeþe (ab ipsa) cunabulorum teneritudine, 2843. Swá swá se geongeste æþeles iuguþhádes wrénnesse quasi tenerrima nobilis infantie lasciuia, 1093. (3) applied to things, fresh, young, new:--Iungum wyrtúna ofætum recentibus (i. nouis) hortorum holusculis, An. Ox. 3750. II. in reference to a change of condition, new, recent:--Iungum neutericis, i. nouellis (catholicae fidei sectatoribus), An. Ox. 1673. III. marking order in time, in superlative, last (cf. Ger. der jüngste tag):--Þæt wæs þám gomelan gingæste word ǽr hé bǽl cure . . . him of hreðre gewát sáwol, B. 2817. IV. marking rank, degree. and next word. geong