beacnung
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editEquivalent to bēacnian + -ung.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbēacnung f
Declension
editDeclension of beacnung (strong ō-stem)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Middle English: bekenynge, bekening, bekenyng, bekninge, beknynge, bekynnynge, bekynynge, bikenyng; becnunge (Early Middle English)
- English: beckoning
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “BĒACNUNG”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.