angenga
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Equivalent to ān- + *genġa, literally “someone who walks alone.” Compare German Einzelgänger (“loner”) and Icelandic einfari (“loner”), which are formed similarly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]āngenġa m
- lone traveler, solitary walker; loner
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of the Lord"
- Þā tungolwītgan ġesāwon nīewne steorran beorhtne, nā on heofonum betwēox ōðrum tunglum, ac wæs āngenġa betwēox heofonum and eorðan.
- The astrologers saw a bright new star, not in the sky among the others, but a lone wanderer between heaven and earth.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Epiphany of the Lord"
- a rogue or solitary animal
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Dedication of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel"
- Hit ġelamp, þā þā sēo ormǣte miċelnes his orfes on þǣre dūne lǣswode, þæt sum mōdiġ fearr wearþ āngenġa and þǣre heorde drāfe oferhogode.
- One time, when his massive herd of cattle was grazing on the mountain, an unruly bull went rogue and scorned the herd.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Dedication of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel"
- Hē þā mid graman wearþ āstyred, hwȳ sē fearr āngenġa his heorde forsāwe, and ġebende his bogan, and mid ġeǣttrode flāne hine ofsċēotan wolde.
- Swollen with anger that this rogue bull dared to break from his heard, he readied his bow to shoot it dead with a poison arrow.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Dedication of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel"