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gæsne
gæsne
Old English
Alternative forms
- gesne, geāsne, gēsine
Adjective
gǣsne
- deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead, void, lifeless
- Ðis geár wæs gǽsne on mæstene — This year was barren in mast-fruit
- Hirdas lǽgon gǽsne on greóte — The keepers lay lifeless on the sand
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural | case | singular | plural | ||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | gǣsna | gǣsne | gǣsne | gǣsnan | nom. | gǣsne | gǣsne | gǣsnu | gǣsne | gǣsnu, -e | gǣsna, -e | ||
| accusative | gǣsnan | gǣsne | gǣsnan | acc. | gǣsnne | gǣsne | gǣsne | gǣsne | gǣsnu, -e | gǣsna, -e | |||
| genitive | gǣsnan | gǣsnra, gǣsnena | gen. | gǣsnes | gǣsnes | gǣsnre | gǣsnra | ||||||
| dative | gǣsnan | gǣsnum | dat. | gǣsnum | gǣsnum | gǣsnre | gǣsnum | ||||||
| instrumental | gǣsne | ||||||||||||
Descendants
References
- 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", gæsne
- 2010, J. Bosworth, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), gæsne