On-hatan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - on-hatan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

on-hatan
to promise:--Hyre nales frætwe onhéht, Exon. Th. 249, 28; Jul. 118. Ðæt ic deófolgieldum gaful onháte, 251, 27; Jul. 151. [Cf. O. H. Ger. ant-heizan vovere, spondere, polliceri: O. Sax. ant-hétan.] on-hatan
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