þurhsmugan
Old English
editEtymology
editEquivalent to þurh- + smūgan.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editþurhsmūgan
- (transitive) to creep or crawl slowly through something
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:
- Se wyrm ðā tungan tōtȳhþ, and ðā tēð þurhsmȳhþ.
- The snake pulls asunder the tongue and crawls slowly through the teeth.
- (transitive) to go painstakingly over or through details
- 1921, Joseph Bosworth, Thomas Northcote Toller, Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online:
- Hiġ habbaþ āscrutnod Serium and Priscianum, and þurhsmogen Catus cwydas.
- They have utterly scrutinized Serium and Priscianum and painstakingly gone through Cato's Disticha.
Conjugation
editConjugation of þurhsmūgan (strong class 2)
infinitive | þurhsmūgan | þurhsmūgenne |
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | þurhsmūge | þurhsmēag, þurhsmēah |
second person singular | þurhsmȳġst | þurhsmuge |
third person singular | þurhsmȳġþ | þurhsmēag, þurhsmēah |
plural | þurhsmūgaþ | þurhsmugon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | þurhsmūge | þurhsmuge |
plural | þurhsmūgen | þurhsmugen |
imperative | ||
singular | þurhsmūg, þurhsmūh | |
plural | þurhsmūgaþ | |
participle | present | past |
þurhsmūgende | þurhsmogen |
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “þurhsmugan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.