"onfon" meaning in Old English

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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "onfon",
            "3": "onfangen"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: onfon, onfangen",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: onfon, onfangen"
    },
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      ],
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    }
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "ûntfean",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to receive"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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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 earlier ondfōn, from Proto-Germanic *anda- + *fanhaną (“to accept”). Cognate with obsolete West Frisian ûntfean (“to receive”), Old High German intfahan (German empfangen). Equivalent to and- + fōn.",
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      "form": "onfōn",
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "conjugation",
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      "source": "conjugation",
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    },
    {
      "form": "onfōn",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōnne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēng",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēhst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēnge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēhþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēng",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēngon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēnge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēngen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōnde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfangen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "onfōn"
      },
      "expansion": "onfōn",
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  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "onfōn<s7>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 9 24 24",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
          "_dis": "43 10 26 21",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 13 19 32",
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\n...ac onfōh mē nū þīnne āgene þēawa, for ic eom flēonde fram hym.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Receive me from men, and give me to my Teacher, that he through thee receive me, who through thee hath redeemed me.\"",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle\"\nOnfōh me fram mannum, and agíf me minum Láreowe, þæt he ðurh ðe me underfō, seðe þurh ðe me alysde.\"",
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        "to receive, accept"
      ],
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          "receive"
        ],
        [
          "accept",
          "accept"
        ]
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to take"
      ],
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        {
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to perceive, catch on to"
      ],
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          "perceive",
          "perceive"
        ],
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          "catch on",
          "catch on"
        ]
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        {
          "_dis": "37 13 19 32",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to undertake, undergo"
      ],
      "id": "en-onfon-ang-verb-kCFID29C",
      "links": [
        [
          "undertake",
          "undertake"
        ],
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          "undergo",
          "undergo"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/onˈfoːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "onfon"
}

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    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms prefixed with and-",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry"
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: onfon, onfangen"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
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            "2": "onfang"
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      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
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        "4": "to receive"
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      "expansion": "West Frisian ûntfean (“to receive”)",
      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "intfahan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German intfahan",
      "name": "cog"
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      },
      "expansion": "German empfangen",
      "name": "cog"
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        "2": "and",
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      },
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  "etymology_text": "From earlier ondfōn, from Proto-Germanic *anda- + *fanhaną (“to accept”). Cognate with obsolete West Frisian ûntfean (“to receive”), Old High German intfahan (German empfangen). Equivalent to and- + fōn.",
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    {
      "form": "onfōn",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "7",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōnne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēng",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēhst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēnge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "onfēhþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēng",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēngon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēnge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōn",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfēngen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfōnde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "onfangen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\n...ac onfōh mē nū þīnne āgene þēawa, for ic eom flēonde fram hym.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Receive me from men, and give me to my Teacher, that he through thee receive me, who through thee hath redeemed me.\"",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"The Nativity of St. Andrew the Apostle\"\nOnfōh me fram mannum, and agíf me minum Láreowe, þæt he ðurh ðe me underfō, seðe þurh ðe me alysde.\"",
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        }
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        "to receive, accept"
      ],
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          "receive",
          "receive"
        ],
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          "accept",
          "accept"
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      "glosses": [
        "to take"
      ],
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          "take",
          "take"
        ]
      ]
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "to perceive, catch on to"
      ],
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        [
          "perceive",
          "perceive"
        ],
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          "catch on",
          "catch on"
        ]
      ]
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        "to undertake, undergo"
      ],
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          "undertake",
          "undertake"
        ],
        [
          "undergo",
          "undergo"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/onˈfoːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "onfon"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1698",
  "msg": "unrecognized head form: + dative/accusative",
  "path": [
    "onfon"
  ],
  "section": "Old English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "onfon",
  "trace": ""
}