Ginne
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ginne
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- ginne
- adj. Wide, spacious, ample, broad (lands). I. having a large area:--Of þǽre ginnan byrig, Jud. 149. Seó æftre eá Ethiopia land and leódgeard beligeð úton, ginne ríce (a broad realm), Gen. 230. Ic weóld folce Deniga and heóld ginne ríce (gim merice, MS.), B. 466. I a. as an epithet of the earth:--Bið eal þess ginna grund (this wide world) gléda gefylled, Dóm. 12. In þýs ginnan grunde, Jud. 2. Ic geondférde fela fremdra londa geond ginne grund, Víd. 51. Under gynne grund under the broad earth, B. 1551. II. ample, of great amount:--Hé him grundwelan ginne sealde, hét þám sinhíwum sǽs and eorðan túddorteóndra teohha gehwilcre wæstmas fédan, Gen. 457. [Cf. Icel. ginn-; and see Grmm. D. M. 297.]