Hwider

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hwider

Add: I. in direct questions, (I) to what place? :-- Hwider fundast þū sīdas dreógan?, Gen. 2269: An. 405: Cri. 1691. Hwyder (hwidder, L.) wylt þū ꝥ wē faron, Mk. 14, II. Huidir, Jn. L. 16, 5. (l a) with emphatic genitive :-- Hwider mæg ic þīnne andlwitan befleón eordan dǣles? a facie tua quo fugiqm?, Ps. Th. 138, 5. (2) towhat state ? :-- Hwyder gewiton þā welan and þā īdlan blissa ? hwyder gewiton þā mycclan weorod þe him ymb stōdan ?, Bl. H. 99, 23-25. II. in dependent clauses. (l) after verbs of asking, finding out, knowing, considering, (a) with local force :-- Eówer nān ne ābsad mē hwyder ic fare, Jn. 16, 5. Hié sendon hlot him betweónum hwider hyra gehwylc faran sceolde, Bl. H. 229, 5. Ic wāt hwyder (huidder, L. , hwider, R.) ic gā, Jn. 8, 14: 14, 5 : Gn. C. 58 : B. 163. (a α) where the place is marked by condition existing in it :-- Tō þencenne . . . hwyder hē gelǣded sȳ, þe tō wīte, þe tō wuldre, Bl. H. 97, 22. (b) of the operations of the mind :-- ' Hwæder dū nū ongite hwider þiós sprǣce wille ? ' Ðā cwæþ ic: ' Sege mē hwider hió wille', Bt. 40, l; F. 234, 32-33. Od þæt hē cunne hwider hredre gehygd hweorfan wille, Wand. 72. (2) as relative adverb :-- Ðū waldes geonga huidir (hwider, R. , þǣr, W. S. ubi) dū waldes . . . ōder dec lǣdes hiddir diddir (dider, R. , W. S. quo) dū nuilt, Jn. L. 21, 18. III. indefinite, to some place or other :-- Sē de hwider faran wille singe his paternoster, Hml. S. 17, 96. Elles hwider aliorsum, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 225, 10. Elles hwyder ofer ꝥ (ne) aliorsum ulterius (progredi valentes), An. Ox. 3781 : Wrt. Voc. ii. 83; 35. IV. combined with swā, whithersoever. (1) swā hwider swā :-- Ǣrendian swā hwyder swā him mon tō tǣcd in nuncium ire quocunque dicetur ei, Ll. Th. i. 432, 18 : Lk. 9, 57. Hē þurhfērde eall Breotone eálond swā hwyder ymb swā (swā hwyder swā ymb, ) Angeldeóde on drohtedon peragrata insula tota quaquauersum Anglorum gentes morabantur, Bd. 4, 2 ; Sch. 343, 22. Hē swā hwider ymb swā hē beden wæs fērde ubicumque rogabatur diuertens, 4, 12; Sch. 412, I. (2) swā hwider :-- Ic fylgo dec suā huider dū færes sequor te quocunque ieris. Mt. L. 8, 19. Suǣhuiddir, Lk. L. 9, 57. (3) hwider swā :-- Ic wille folgian þē hwider swā þū ganges, Mt. R. 8, 19. v. ǣg-, ge-, nā-hwider; hwidere. hwider

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