fon

Meaning

1. to catch, capture; seize

   c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 21, verse 3

   Then said Simon Peter to them. I want to go fishing. Then they said to him, and we want to go with you. And they went out and went in a ship, and caught nothing in the night.

2. to take what is given, receive or accept what is offered

   Ōsrēd, þe wæs Norþanhymbra cining, æfter wræcsīþe hām cumenum ġelǣht wæs ⁊ ofslagen on XVIII Kƚ Octoƀ ⁊ his līc liġþ æt Tīnamūþe. ⁊ Æþelrēd cining feng tō nīwan wīfe, sēo wæs Ælflēd ġehāten, on III Kƚ Octobr̃.

   Osred, who was king of Northumbrian, was apprehended and slain on the 17th of October after coming home from his exile, and his body lies at Tynemouth. And King Aethelred took a new wife, whose name was Aelfled, on the third of October.

   The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

3. to conquer, take over

   Æfter him feng his sunu tō Persea rīċe Xersis.

   After him his son Xerxes took over the Persian Empire.

   late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

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