Old English · noun
wissung
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /ˈwis.sunɡ/[ˈwis.suŋɡ]
- Syllables
- ˈwis · sunɡ (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- guidancedirection
Meaning
-
guidance, direction, teaching
Hī ferdon, þurh wissunge þǣs Hālgan Gāstes, tō ðām earde þe is ġehāten Persida, and þǣr ġemetton ðā tweġen drȳmen, Zaroen and Arfaxað, þe ætflugon ðām apostole Mathēō, of ðǣra Silhearwena lande...
Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, they went to the land known as Persia, and there encountered the two sorcerers Zaroen and Arfaxath, who had fled from the apostle Matthew in Ethiopia...
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church -
rule, authority
Declension
All forms (2)
Etymology
By surface analysis, wissian + -ung
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