Un-cweþende

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-cweþende

According to the Old English Dictionary:

un-cweþende
adj. I. not having speech :-- Ðeáh ðe gesomnod sý eal ðætte heofon oððe hel oððe eorðe ǽfre ácende, and ánra gehwylc ge ðæra cweðendra ge ðæra uncweðendra hæbbe gyldene býman on múðe, Salm. Kmbl. p. 152, 9. II. not having a voice, inanimate :-- Hweþer ðú ongite ðæt ða uncweþendan gesceafta wilnodon tó biónne on écnesse swá ilce swá men gif hí mihton ea quae inanimata esse creduntur, nonne quod suum est quaeque simili ratione desiderant? Bt. 34, 11; Fox 150, 17. [Cf. Waldandes dóð unqueðandes só filo antkennian scolda ... erða ... bergós ... sténós, Hél. 5663.] un-cweþende
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