Middle English Dictionary Entry
iunnen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | iunnen v. Also (early) iunne, iunnæ, ȝeunnæn, ȝeunne, ȝeunnon, geunne. Forms: p. iūðe, iȝūðe, ȝeuþe; ppl. iunne(n, geunnan, geunnon & iunned. |
| Etymology | OE geunnan; p. geūþe; ppl. geunnen. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To grant (sth.); grant (sth.) to (sb.); -- also absol.; (b) to allow (sb. to do sth.); -- with inf. phr. or that clause.
Associated quotations
a
- (1100) Chart.St.Paul in RHS ser.3.5820 : Ic habbe geunnan Maurice bisceope þat bissceoperice on Lundone mid saca and mid soka and mid tol & mid teame, [etc.].
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)12/18 : Ȝif þu heom þone leng me ȝeunnon nelle, ȝewurðæ þine willæ.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)14/11 : Wuldor ðe beo, drihten, þare blisse ðe þu me iunnen hafst.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)16/22 : Ȝif ðe mildheorte god inc þæs ȝeunnæn wullæ, & ȝit þæs wurðe, beon ȝewurðe his willæ.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)16392 : Me hafde godd seolf godes iunnen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)21083 : Ȝif hit wule ivnnen waldende hæfnen, ich wulle wurðliche wreken alle his wiðer deden.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30225 : Whaðer he hit wolde iunne oðer him for-beode.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)31568 : Ȝif þu wult me lenen & þine læue iunnen..ich wulle uorð aneouste.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)12/171 : Godd haueð þurh his grace se muche luue ivnnen þet, [etc.].
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)5/30 : Þes ȝunge mon eleusius..hefde iunne feolahschipe to affrican.
- c1225 Lofsong Lefdi (Roy 17.A.27)305 : Ich habbe..iȝeue mis, iunne mis, ant ethalden ofte.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)19/20 : [F]or alle þeo þe habbeð eani god ido me, iseid me, oðer iunnen [Nero: i vnned] me.
- a1300 Leuedi sainte (Add 27909)32 : Swo me hadde ifurn ido ȝif hit me crist i-ȝuðe [rime: muðe, cuðe, nuðe].
b
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)39/222 : Ðiss is þæt seleste dæl, þæt hit næfre ne byð wiðtogen; Ðæs dæles us geunne God þurh hire þingunge þæt we beon dælnymende þurh his mildheortnysse.
- (1155) Chart.Hen.II in Hall EME (Hrl Charter 3.B.49)12 : Ic hebbe heom geunnon þæt hi beon ælc þare lande wurþa þe hi eafdon en Edwardes kinges deȝe.
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)20/18 : Ic halsiȝe þe..þet ðu ȝeunne me þet ic mote beon fuliȝende mid ðe þam halȝæn mæȝene.
- a1200(?OE) Cmb.Hom.(Cmb Ii.1.33)100/27 : Him ȝeuþe þa se casere..þæt se wælhreowa ehtere þone anweald hæfde þæt he moste acwellan þa Cristenan mid witum.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)125 : Ure drihten and ure alesend iunne us allen þet we swa on þisse liue maȝen his hest and his biboden halden.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)16287 : Ich wulle milden wurðen ȝif godd me wule ivnnæ min æðel to biwinnen.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)16549 : Godd hit me iuðe þat ich hine igripen habben.