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Adverb [Old English]

IPA: /onˈjæ͜ɑːn/ Forms: onġēan [canonical], āġēan [alternative], onġeġn [alternative], onġæġn [alternative], onġēn [alternative]
Etymology: from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Compare Old Saxon angegin, Middle Dutch entegen (Dutch entegen), Old High German ingegin and ingagan (German entgegen). By surface analysis, on- + ġean. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*in gagin}} Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*in gagin}} Proto-Germanic *in gagin, {{cog|osx|angegin}} Old Saxon angegin, {{cog|dum|entegen}} Middle Dutch entegen, {{cog|nl|entegen}} Dutch entegen, {{cog|goh|ingegin}} Old High German ingegin, {{cog|de|entgegen}} German entgegen, {{surf|ang|on-|ġean}} By surface analysis, on- + ġean Head templates: {{ang-adv|onġēan}} onġēan
  1. opposite
    Sense id: en-ongean-ang-adv-2fYsKtCt Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Old English prepositions, Old English terms prefixed with on-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 41 0 0 25 35 Disambiguation of Old English prepositions: 34 0 0 29 37 Disambiguation of Old English terms prefixed with on-: 34 0 0 27 39 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 0 0 13 55 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 44 0 0 30 26
  2. back
    Sense id: en-ongean-ang-adv-PEgjRvN1
  3. with
    Sense id: en-ongean-ang-adv-BpW1Y6ze

Preposition [Old English]

IPA: /onˈjæ͜ɑːn/ Forms: onġēan [canonical], accusative [error-unknown-tag, with-dative], āġēan [alternative], onġeġn [alternative], onġæġn [alternative], onġēn [alternative]
Etymology: from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Compare Old Saxon angegin, Middle Dutch entegen (Dutch entegen), Old High German ingegin and ingagan (German entgegen). By surface analysis, on- + ġean. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*in gagin}} Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*in gagin}} Proto-Germanic *in gagin, {{cog|osx|angegin}} Old Saxon angegin, {{cog|dum|entegen}} Middle Dutch entegen, {{cog|nl|entegen}} Dutch entegen, {{cog|goh|ingegin}} Old High German ingegin, {{cog|de|entgegen}} German entgegen, {{surf|ang|on-|ġean}} By surface analysis, on- + ġean Head templates: {{head|ang|preposition|head=onġēan|sort=}} onġēan, {{ang-prep|head=onġēan}} onġēan
  1. against (+dative)
    Sense id: en-ongean-ang-prep-IK7d2i1y Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Old English prepositions, Old English terms prefixed with on-, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 41 0 0 25 35 Disambiguation of Old English prepositions: 34 0 0 29 37 Disambiguation of Old English terms prefixed with on-: 34 0 0 27 39 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 0 0 13 55
  2. against as in to oppose with hostility (+accusative)
    Sense id: en-ongean-ang-prep-5eI8Wkwk Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Old English prepositions, Old English terms prefixed with on-, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 41 0 0 25 35 Disambiguation of Old English prepositions: 34 0 0 29 37 Disambiguation of Old English terms prefixed with on-: 34 0 0 27 39 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 31 0 0 13 55
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: eft
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        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*in gagin"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      },
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      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
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      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, on- + ġean",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Compare Old Saxon angegin, Middle Dutch entegen (Dutch entegen), Old High German ingegin and ingagan (German entgegen). By surface analysis, on- + ġean.",
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      "form": "onġēan",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "āġēan",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onġeġn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onġæġn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "onġēn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
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      "args": {
        "1": "onġēan"
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      "expansion": "onġēan",
      "name": "ang-adv"
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  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "41 0 0 25 35",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 0 0 29 37",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        "opposite"
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      "links": [
        [
          "opposite",
          "opposite"
        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...Let the man be led back, for my dear Julian's sake...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Passion of St. Julian and His Wife Basilissa\"\n...Beo se man ongean gelæd, for minum leofan iuliane...",
          "translation": "...Let the man be led back, for my dear Julian's sake...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Isn't it better for us to turn back to Egypt?",
          "roman": "Nis ūs lā betere þæt wē būgen onġēan tō Ēgypta lande?",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Numbers 14:3",
          "translation": "Isn't it better for us to turn back to Egypt?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "back"
      ],
      "id": "en-ongean-ang-adv-PEgjRvN1",
      "links": [
        [
          "back",
          "back"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
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        {
          "english": "In this present life the chosen appear few in comparison with the number of the reprobates, but when they shall be gathered to the eternal life, their number will be so manifold, that it will exceed, according to the prophet's saying, the number of the sand-grains.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost\"\nOn ðisum andweardan life sind þa gecorenan feawa geðuhte onġēan getel þæra wiðercorenra, ac þonne hí to ðam ecan life gegaderode beoð, heora tel bið swa menigfeald, þæt hit oferstihð, be ðæs witegan cwyde, sand-ceosles gerím.",
          "translation": "In this present life the chosen appear few in comparison with the number of the reprobates, but when they shall be gathered to the eternal life, their number will be so manifold, that it will exceed, according to the prophet's saying, the number of the sand-grains.",
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        "with"
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          "with",
          "with"
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/onˈjæ͜ɑːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ongean"
}

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        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "word": "again"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Geordie",
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        },
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        },
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        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
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          "word": "agane"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
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          "word": "agen"
        },
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          "word": "ageen"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
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        {
          "lang": "Yola",
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      "lang_code": "enm",
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        },
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        },
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        },
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        {
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      "word": "again"
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "lang_code": "enm",
      "word": "aȝen"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "name": "inh"
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      },
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      "name": "cog"
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      },
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    },
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  "etymology_text": "from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Compare Old Saxon angegin, Middle Dutch entegen (Dutch entegen), Old High German ingegin and ingagan (German entgegen). By surface analysis, on- + ġean.",
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      "form": "onġēan",
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "accusative",
      "tags": [
        "error-unknown-tag",
        "with-dative"
      ]
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      "form": "āġēan",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onġeġn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onġæġn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onġēn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
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        "1": "ang",
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        "sort": ""
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      "args": {
        "head": "onġēan"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "prep",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "41 0 0 25 35",
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 0 0 29 37",
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        {
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          "_dis": "31 0 0 13 55",
          "kind": "other",
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        {
          "english": "Simon said, \"Thou good king, thou understandest not the plot of these two men against me.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul\"\nSimon cwæð, \"Ðu góda cyning, ne understenst ðu ðisra twegra manna gerēonunge onġēan mē.",
          "translation": "Simon said, \"Thou good king, thou understandest not the plot of these two men against me.",
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      ],
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        "against (+dative)"
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      "links": [
        [
          "against",
          "against"
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      ]
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        {
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 0 0 13 55",
          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
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        {
          "english": "...and we durst not fight against the overwhelming army,...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Agnes, Virgin\"\n...and we feohtan ne durston ongean ðone ormætan here..",
          "translation": "...and we durst not fight against the overwhelming army,...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "At that time, Xerxes had declared war against the Indians...",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nÞā hæfde sē cyning Xerxes ġecweden ġefeoht onġēan ðā Indisċan...",
          "translation": "At that time, Xerxes had declared war against the Indians...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "against as in to oppose with hostility (+accusative)"
      ],
      "id": "en-ongean-ang-prep-5eI8Wkwk",
      "links": [
        [
          "against",
          "against"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/onˈjæ͜ɑːn/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "eft"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ongean"
}
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          "english": "...Let the man be led back, for my dear Julian's sake...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Passion of St. Julian and His Wife Basilissa\"\n...Beo se man ongean gelæd, for minum leofan iuliane...",
          "translation": "...Let the man be led back, for my dear Julian's sake...",
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        {
          "english": "Isn't it better for us to turn back to Egypt?",
          "roman": "Nis ūs lā betere þæt wē būgen onġēan tō Ēgypta lande?",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Numbers 14:3",
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        {
          "english": "In this present life the chosen appear few in comparison with the number of the reprobates, but when they shall be gathered to the eternal life, their number will be so manifold, that it will exceed, according to the prophet's saying, the number of the sand-grains.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost\"\nOn ðisum andweardan life sind þa gecorenan feawa geðuhte onġēan getel þæra wiðercorenra, ac þonne hí to ðam ecan life gegaderode beoð, heora tel bið swa menigfeald, þæt hit oferstihð, be ðæs witegan cwyde, sand-ceosles gerím.",
          "translation": "In this present life the chosen appear few in comparison with the number of the reprobates, but when they shall be gathered to the eternal life, their number will be so manifold, that it will exceed, according to the prophet's saying, the number of the sand-grains.",
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      "ipa": "/onˈjæ͜ɑːn/"
    }
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}

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      "form": "āġēan",
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      "form": "onġeġn",
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    {
      "form": "onġæġn",
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        {
          "english": "Simon said, \"Thou good king, thou understandest not the plot of these two men against me.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul\"\nSimon cwæð, \"Ðu góda cyning, ne understenst ðu ðisra twegra manna gerēonunge onġēan mē.",
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          "english": "...and we durst not fight against the overwhelming army,...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Agnes, Virgin\"\n...and we feohtan ne durston ongean ðone ormætan here..",
          "translation": "...and we durst not fight against the overwhelming army,...",
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        {
          "english": "At that time, Xerxes had declared war against the Indians...",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nÞā hæfde sē cyning Xerxes ġecweden ġefeoht onġēan ðā Indisċan...",
          "translation": "At that time, Xerxes had declared war against the Indians...",
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      "ipa": "/onˈjæ͜ɑːn/"
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    {
      "word": "eft"
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  ],
  "word": "ongean"
}

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