Wiþ-gínan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wiþ-gínan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

wiþ-gínan
p. de To reply (? cf. Icel. gegna to reply); to repel, reject (? he replied to his thought, or he rejected the idea, and answered himself thus): 'Ac ic nát eftsóna, ne ic nǽfre git nyste ðæt ǽnig óþer byrig ús wǽre gehende búton Ephese ánre,' Homl. Skt. i. 23, 541. wiþ-ginan

Related words: gynde, Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 636):--Ðá cwæð hé eft tó him sylfum: 'Tó sóðan ne þincð mé nǽfre ðæt hit sóð sý ðæt ðys sý Efesa byrig . . .' Ðá wiðgýnde hé eft his geðance, ond him þus andwyrde (

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