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74,
80
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],
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75
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],
"english": "Busy with time, I should keenly\nhearken my servant, grasped by rings,\nbreak my bed, make known by noise\nthat lord gave me a neck collar.",
"ref": "c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 4:",
"text": "Iċ sċeal þrāgbysiġ · þeġne mīnum,\nhringan hæfted, · hȳran ġeorne,\nmīn bed brecan, · breahtme cȳþan\nþæt mē halswriþan · hlāford sealde.",
"translation": "Busy with time, I should keenly\nhearken my servant, grasped by rings,\nbreak my bed, make known by noise\nthat lord gave me a neck collar.",
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"english": "If a robber breaks into someone's house at night and the homeowner kills them, the homeowner is not guilty of murder. But if they do this after sunrise, they are guilty of murder, and they will die too, unless they acted out of necessity.",
"text": "c. 893, Alfred the Great, Doom Book\nĠif þēof brece mannes hūs nihtes and hē weorðe þǣr ofslæġen, ne sīe hē nā mansleġes sċyldiġ. Ġif hē siþþan æfter sunnan upgange þis dēþ, hē biþ mansleġes sċyldiġ, and hē þonne self swelte, būtan hē nīeddǣda wǣre.",
"translation": "If a robber breaks into someone's house at night and the homeowner kills them, the homeowner is not guilty of murder. But if they do this after sunrise, they are guilty of murder, and they will die too, unless they acted out of necessity.",
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"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "brece",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bræc",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bricst",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "brǣce",
"links": [
[
"brǣce",
"bræce#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "bricþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bræc",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "brecaþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "brǣcon",
"links": [
[
"brǣcon",
"bræcon#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "brece",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "brǣce",
"links": [
[
"brǣce",
"bræce#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "brecen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "brǣcen",
"links": [
[
"brǣcen",
"bræcen#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "brec",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "brecaþ",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "brecende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "brocen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ġebrocen",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "brecan",
"name": "ang-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "brecan<s4>"
},
"name": "ang-conj"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "*brucol"
},
{
"word": "*bryċel"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
74,
80
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
70,
75
]
],
"english": "Busy with time, I should keenly\nhearken my servant, grasped by rings,\nbreak my bed, make known by noise\nthat lord gave me a neck collar.",
"ref": "c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 4:",
"text": "Iċ sċeal þrāgbysiġ · þeġne mīnum,\nhringan hæfted, · hȳran ġeorne,\nmīn bed brecan, · breahtme cȳþan\nþæt mē halswriþan · hlāford sealde.",
"translation": "Busy with time, I should keenly\nhearken my servant, grasped by rings,\nbreak my bed, make known by noise\nthat lord gave me a neck collar.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to break"
],
"links": [
[
"break",
"break"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "brēatan"
},
{
"word": "berstan"
},
{
"word": "brēotan"
},
{
"word": "brīetan"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Old English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "If a robber breaks into someone's house at night and the homeowner kills them, the homeowner is not guilty of murder. But if they do this after sunrise, they are guilty of murder, and they will die too, unless they acted out of necessity.",
"text": "c. 893, Alfred the Great, Doom Book\nĠif þēof brece mannes hūs nihtes and hē weorðe þǣr ofslæġen, ne sīe hē nā mansleġes sċyldiġ. Ġif hē siþþan æfter sunnan upgange þis dēþ, hē biþ mansleġes sċyldiġ, and hē þonne self swelte, būtan hē nīeddǣda wǣre.",
"translation": "If a robber breaks into someone's house at night and the homeowner kills them, the homeowner is not guilty of murder. But if they do this after sunrise, they are guilty of murder, and they will die too, unless they acted out of necessity.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to break into a place"
],
"links": [
[
"break into",
"break into"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbre.kɑn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-e.kɑn"
}
],
"word": "brecan"
}
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