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GLOSSARY.

styrian, w. v., stir, disturb, 1374, 2840; handle, treat, 872.

styrman, w. v., storm, 2552.

suhter-gefæderan, w. m. pl., uncle and nephew, 1164.

sum, adj., some, one, a certain, 2156, 3124. Although sum always has the inflections of an adj. (see l. 1432), it is more often used substantively, or as an indef. pron., 1251, 1432, 400, etc.; neut. ne sceal þǣr dyrne sum wesan, “there shall be naught secret,” 271. Often with partitive gen. 675, 713, 1499, etc.; esp. with gen. of numerals and adjs. of quantity: fīftēna sum, “one of fifteen, i.e. with fourteen others,” 207; so 3123, 1412, 2091; sumne fēara, “one of a few, i.e. some few,” 3061. In a few cases sum appears to have a certain demon. force, 248, 314, 1312, 2279.

sund, st. m., swimming, 507, 517, 1436, 1618; sound, channel, sea, 213, 1510, etc.

sund-gebland, st. neut., [sound-blend] welter of the sea, tumult of the waves, 1450.

sund-nytt, st. f., [swimming-use]; acc. sund-nytte drēah, “swam through the sea,” 2360.

sundor-nytt, st. f., special service, 667.

sundur, adv., asunder, 2422.

sund-wudu, st. m., [sound-wood] ship, 208, 1906.

sunne, w. f., sun, 94, etc.

sunu, st. m., son, 268, etc.; dat. suna, 1226, etc., sunu, 344.

sūð, adv., south, southwards, 858.

sūðan, adv., from the south, 606, 1966.

swā:

I. adv. of manner and degree, so, thus, 347, 1142, 1843, 3069, etc. Special passage: leng swā wel, “the longer the better,” 1854.

II. conjunctive adv., as in its various meanings, 29, 490, 881, 3098, 1667 (when), 2184 (since), etc.; in elliptical sentences, 2622; eft swā ǣr, 642; correl. with swā I., 594, 1092–3, etc. Special passage: swā mē Higelāc sīe…mōdes blīðe, “as may H. be gracious to me, on condition that H. be gracious to me,” 435.

III. = rel.pron.; wlite-beorhtne wang, swā wæter bebūgeð, “the beauteous-bright plain, which water encompasses,” 93.

IV. conj., so that, 1508, 2006.

swā þēah, swā ðēh, however, 972, 2967, etc.; redundant after hwæðre, 2442.

swā hwæðere……swā, whichsoever, 686-7.

swā hwylc…swā, with gen., whichsoever, 943, 3057.

swǣlan, w. v.

be-swǣlan, w. v., scorch, 3041.

swǣs, adj., dear, own dear, 29, 520, etc.

swǣslīce, adv., gently, 3089.

swancor, adj., [swank] slender, 2175.

swan-rād, st. f., swan-road, sea, 200.

swāpan, st. v.

for-swāpan, st. v., sweep away, sweep off, 477, 2814.

-swarian, w. v.

ond-swarian, and-swarian, w. v., answer, 258, 340.

swāt, st. m., [sweat] blood, 1286, etc.

swāt-fāh, adj., [sweat-stained] blood-stained, 1111.

swātig, adj., [sweaty] bloody, 1569.

swāt-swaðu, st. f., [sweat-track] blood-track, 2946.

swaðrian, w. v., subside; pret. pl. swaðredon, 570.

swaðu, [swath] st. f., track, 2098; acc. him sīo swīðre swaðe weardade hand, “his right hand showed where he had been,” 2098.

swaðul, st. m. neut.?, smoke, 782.

sweart, adj., swart, black, dark, 167, 3145.

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