Mengan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - mengan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

mængan, mencgan;

mengan
p. de. I. to mix, mingle, combine :-- Ic menge mango(?), Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 42. Mengio, 113, 59: Epl. Gl. 156, 36. Mænge margo (mango?), Wrt. Voc. ii. 58, 48. Menget confundit, 105, 11. Ic mínne drinc mengde wið teárum potum meum cum fletu temperabam, Ps. Th. 101, 7. Ðú wið fýre foldan mengdest, Bt. Met. Fox 20, 223; Met. 20, 112. Ðara blód Pilatus mengde (miscuit) mid hyra offrungum, Lk. Skt. 13, 1. Ðonne wé medelcwidas mengdon when we conversed, Salm. Kmbl. 865; Sal. 432. Hí hí wið mánfullum megndan þeóde commisti sunt inter gentes, Ps. Th. 105, 26. Hí mínne mete mengde wið geallan, 68, 22. Meng ða blisse wið ða unrótnesse, ProOf sexual intercourse :-- Is eác bewered ðæt mon hine menge wið his bróðor wífe cum cognata misceat prohibitum est, Bd. 1, 27; S. 491, 16, 10. II. intrans :-- Hát and ceald hwílum mencgaþ, Cd. 216; Th. 273, 6; Sat. 132. III. to mingle together, stir up, disturb :-- Mengan merestreámas, Exon. 123 b; Th. 475, 3; Bo. 42. Meregrundas mengan, Beo. Th. 2903; B. 1449. [Cf. his mod him gon mengen, Laym. 3407: wraþþe meinþ þe heorte blod, O. and N. 945. Prompt. Parv. mengyn misceo: O. Sax. O. L. Ger. mengian: O. Frs. mengia: O. H. Ger. chi-menghid; pp.: Ger. mengen.] v. ge-, geond-mengan. mengan

Related words: Kmbl. 71. Fífleáfon seáw mencg (mængc, MS. B) tó wíne, Herb. 3, 6; Lchdnl. i. 88, 112. Menge mon wið áseowen hunig, L. M. 2, 26; Lchdm. ii. 220, 10. Nánne wǽtan hí ne cúþon wið hunige mengan, Bt. 15; Fox 48, 10. Mengan, Bt. Met. Fox 8, 48; Met. 8, 22. Mengan lyge wið sóðe, Elen. Kmbl. 612; El. 306.

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