ongean

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬). .

Adverb

 * 1) opposite
 * 2) back
 * 3) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Passion of St. Julian and His Wife Basilissa"
 * "ang"

- ...Beo se man ongean gelæd, for minum leofan iuliane...


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Numbers 14:3
 * "ang"

- Nis ūs lā betere þæt wē būgen onġēan tō Ēgypta lande?


 * 1) with
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost"
 * "ang"

- On 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.

Preposition
(with dative or (giving sense of motion) accusative)


 * 1) against (+dative)
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"
 * "ang"

- Simon cwæð, "Ðu góda cyning, ne understenst ðu ðisra twegra manna gerēonunge onġēan mē.


 * 1) against as in to oppose with hositility (+accusative)
 * 2) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Agnes, Virgin"
 * "ang"

- ...and we feohtan ne durston ongean ðone ormætan here..