Gīnan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gīnan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gīnan
p. de To turn (trans.) back, drive back :-- Hī man gȳnde (gīnde, gēnde [glossed drāf], ) ongeán eft tō Jūdan (cf. they, turning back upon them that pursued them, i Macc. 7, 46), Hml, S. 25, 636. [Cf. O. H. Ger. gaganeno obviare: Icel. gegna to meet.] v. wiþ-gīnan; on-geagn. ginan

Related words: ll.

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