ongietan

Meaning

1. to understand, recognize, comprehend

   Þȳ iċ wundriġe hwȳ þū ne mæġe onġietan þæt þū eart nū ġīet swīðe ġesǣliġ, nū þū ġīet leofast and eart hāl.

   So I wonder why you can't understand that you're still very lucky, since you're still alive and healthy.

   late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

2. to seize

3. to perceive

   Nu iċ wæs of þām rihtan weġe mīnes inġeþances ac betere hit bið þæt iċ eft fare ūt of þysum porte þȳlǣs þe iċ tō swīðe dweliġe and forþȳ þonne ne cume tō mīnum gefērum þe mē ǣr hyder sendon; ġewislīċe iċ hēr onġyten hæbbe þæt mē hæfð ġelǣht fæste mīnes mōdes oferstīge þæt iċ nāt nā forġeare hū iċ hit þus maciġe.

   Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.

   late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"

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