Old English · adverb
on
- Part of speech
- adverb
- IPA
- /on/
- Syllables
- on (1 syllable)
on1 · adverb
Senses
from
on2 · preposition
Senses
on, in, at, among
On þǣm hūse
In the house
on, during
On midne winter
In mid-winter
onto, into (to express allative motion or a change of state)
Đā ġelǣredan ne beðurfon þyssera bōca, forðan ðe him mæġ heora āgen lār genihtsumian. Iċ cweðe nū þæt iċ næfre heonon forð ne āwende godspel oððe godspeltrahtas of Lēdene on Englisċ.
The learned have no need of these books, for their own learning will suffice. I say now that henceforth, I will never translate a gospel or a gospel-commentary from Latin into English.
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *ana, from Proto-Germanic *ana. See Old English in for more.
Descendants
on
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