On-swebban

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

on-swebban
to put to sleep (but generally of the sleep of death), lay to rest (in the grave):--Onsuebbaþ sepeliant, Wrt. Voc. ii. 120, 44. Onsuebdum sopitis, 120, 73. [O. Sax. an-swebian: O. H. Ger. in-, int-sueppen sopire.]

Related words: á-swebban. on-swebban

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