Wægn

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wægn

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wægen, wǽn, es;

wægn
m. A waggon, wain, carriage, vehicle :-- Wægn vehiculum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 40. Wǽn carrum">plaustrum, Wrt. Voc. i. 66, 51: 284, 43: carrum">plaustrum vel carrum, 16, 19: 85, 69. Mid ðý hé ðá se wǽn (wægn, MS. T.) com ðe man ða bán on lǽdde cum venisset carrum in quo ossa ducebantur, Bd. 3, 11; S. 535, 17 note. Hé ofer wǽg gewát, wǽn æfter ran, Runic pm. Kmbl. 343, 32; Rún. 22. Wægnes hweól rotam, Ps. Th. 82, 10. Wǽnes weð (swæd? pæð?) orbita, Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 47. Ánes wǽnes gangweg actus, 37, 37. On wǽnes eaxe hwearfaþ ða hweól, and sió eax byrþ eallne ðone wǽn, Bt. 39, 7; Fox 220, 27: 39, 8; Fox 224, 6. Wǽne carruca, Hpt. Gl. 438, 67. Mid ðý ðe hine mon bere oþþe on wǽne ferige, Lchdm. ii. 30, 29. Stígan on wægn, Exon. Th. 404, 17; Rä. 23, 9. Hí gegearwodon wægen (carrum) and on ásetton ða fǽmnan, Bd. 3, 9; S. 534, 9. Wæs gold on wǽn hladen, Beo. Th. 6260; B. 3134. Twégra wǽna gangweg via, Wrt. Voc. i. 37, 38. Tuégra uuegna gang (in curribus, Ps. Spl. 19, 8. Ðæt hig nymon wǽnas (plaustra), Gen. 45, 19, 27. ¶ with special reference to what is carried, in the phrase wægnes, wægna gang, the going to fetch wood, v. Kemble's Saxons in England, ii. pp, 70, 71 :-- .ii. wéna gang mid cyninges wénum tó Bleán ðem wiada (cf. .iiii. carris transductionem in silba regis sex ebdomades a die Pentecosten, hubi alteri hommes silbam cedunt, 122, 8), Chart. Th. 119, 16. An ic twéga wǽna gang on clætinc tó wudurédenne, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 36, 15. [Tuége waine gong wudes, iv. 282, 15. Tó wayne gong tó wude, 282, 28.] ¶ referring to the constellation Charles' wain. v. carles wǽn :-- Wǽnes ðísl (waegne[s] þíxl, 100, 72) archtoes, Wrt. Voc. ii. 7, 23. Tunglu ðe wé hátaþ wǽnes ðísla, Bt. 39, 3; Fox 214, 19: Met. 28, 10. [O. L. Ger. reidi-wagan currus: O. Frs. wain, wein: O. H. Ger. wagan carrum">plaustrum, carra, carrum, vehiculum: Icel. vagn.] v. fyrd-, hors-, hræd-, rǽd-, ryne-, scrid-, wíg-wægn (-wǽn). wægn

Related words: wægn-gang), Cod. Dip. B. i. 344, 12. On wǽnum

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