Old English · determiner
begen
Normalised bēġen
- Part of speech
- determiner
- Declension
- strong
- IPA
- /ˈbeː.jen/
- Syllables
- ˈbeː · jen (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- both
Meaning
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both
Hīe restaþ bēġen on Eoferwīc ċeastre on ānum portice.
They both lie in a portico in York.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Declension
All forms (7)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bōjain, a compound formed from *bō (from the neuter of Proto-Germanic *bai) + *jain; equivalent to bū + ġeon.
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