ontynan

Old English

Alternative forms

• untȳnan

Etymology

From on- +‎ tȳnan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /onˈtyː.nɑn/

Verb

ontȳnan

1. to open, to loose, to free
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Þū ūs clypast tō ūrunm weġe, and ūs ġelēdest tō þǣre dura and ūs ðā untȳnst,...

     Thou callest us back to our way, and leadest us to the door, and openest to us,...

   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     ...ac untīn mē þīne dura...

     ...but open to me Thy door,...

   • 10th century, Cynewulf, Elene, 1228–1231

     ...Sie þara manna gehwam
     behliden helle duru, heofones ontyned,
     ece geopenad engla rice,
     dream unhwilen...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to disclose, reveal, display

Conjugation

Conjugation of ontȳnan (weak class 1)

infinitive	ontȳnan	ontȳnenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	ontȳne	ontȳnde
second person singular	ontȳnest, ontȳnst	ontȳndest
third person singular	ontȳneþ, ontȳnþ	ontȳnde
plural	ontȳnaþ	ontȳndon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	ontȳne	ontȳnde
plural	ontȳnen	ontȳnden
imperative
singular	ontȳn
plural	ontȳnaþ
participle	present	past
	ontȳnende	ontȳned

Derived terms

• ontȳnnes (“opening, discovery”)

Descendants

• Middle English: untinen, untynen
  • English: untine

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ontynan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.