þurhwadan
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θurxˈwɑ.dɑn/, [θurˠxˈwɑ.dɑn]
Verb
þurhwadan
- (transitive) to pass through
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:
- Hātan ofnes wylm þurhwōdon...
- (They) passed through an oven's fire to be named/bidden...
- (transitive) to penetrate
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:
- Ðæt swurd þurhwōd wyrm, ðæt hit on wealle ætstōd.
- The sword penetrated the worm/snake, that it came to rest in the wall.
Conjugation
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References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “þurhwadan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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