ongietan

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to understand, recognize, comprehend
 * 2) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' 
 * "ang"

- Þȳ iċ wundriġe hwȳ þū ne mæġe onġietan þæt þū eart nū ġīet swīðe ġesǣliġ, nū þū ġīet leofast and eart hāl.


 * 1) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
 * "ang"

- Ic hī lufige for frēondscype and for gefērǣdenne and þā þēah ofer æalle ōðre þe mē mǣstne fultum dōð tō ongyttanne and tō witanne gescēadwīsnesse and wīsdōm, and æalra mǣst be Gode and be ūrum sāulum; forðām ic wōt þæt ic mæg ǣð myd heora fultume æfter spurian þonne ic būtan mæge.


 * 1) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
 * "ang"

- ...ac ic þurh nan þincg ongytan ne mæg hu me sy þus gelumpen þæt ic hit þus macige.


 * 1)  to seize
 * 2) to perceive
 * 3) * late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
 * "ang"

- nu ic wæs of þam rihtan wege mines ingeþances ac betere hit bið þæt ic eft fare ut of þysum porte ðylæs þe ic to swiðe dwelige and for-þy þonne ne cume to minum geferum þe me ær hyder sendon; gewislice ic her ongyten hæbbe þæt me hæfð gelæht fæste mines modes oferstige þæt ic nat na forgeare hu ic hit þus macige.