gecierran
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Old English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]ġeċierran (West Saxon)
- (transitive) to turn back
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
- Seo eadige Maria, and Ioseph, ðæs cildes fostor-fæder, gecyrdon to þære byrig Nazareth mid þam cilde; "and þæt cild weox, and wæs gestrangod, and mid wisdome afylled, and Godes gifu wæs on him wunigende."
- The blessed Mary, and Joseph, the child's foster-father, returned to the city of Nazareth with the child; "and the child grew, and was strengthened, and filled with wisdom, and God's grace was dwelling within him."
- c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"
- to go to, visit
- (kind or submissive) to turn or convert somebody to (+ tō) something or somebody
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Eugenia, Virgin"
- Þa æfter þrym gearum þæs þe heo gecyrred wæs...
- Then after three years since her conversion,...
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Eugenia, Virgin"
- (literal or figurative) to turn, come, or go from (+ of, fram)...to, around, upon (+ tō, ymb, on))
- tō mynstre ġeċyrran
- to go to monastery.
- to turn to or from
- to turn to (as for help); to assent to; to be favorable towards
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of ġeċierran (weak class 1)
infinitive | ġeċierran | ġeċierrenne |
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | ġeċierre | ġeċierde |
second person singular | ġeċierest | ġeċierdest |
third person singular | ġeċiereþ | ġeċierde |
plural | ġeċierraþ | ġeċierdon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | ġeċierre | ġeċierde |
plural | ġeċierren | ġeċierden |
imperative | ||
singular | ġeċiere | |
plural | ġeċierraþ | |
participle | present | past |
ġeċierrende | ġeċiered |
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[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠEĊYRRAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠEĊIRRAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠEĊERRAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.