sceawian

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1) to watch or look at
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "Midlent Sunday"
 * "ang"

- On ōðre wīsan wē sċēawiaþ mētinge and on ōðre wīsan stafas. Ne gǣþ nā māre tō mētinge būtan þæt þū hit ġesēo and herie. Nis nā ġenōg þæt þū stafas sċēawiġe būtan þū hīe ēac rǣde and þæt andġiet understande.


 * 1) * c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
 * "ang"

- We mihton eow secgan ane lytle bysne, gif hit to wáclic nære; Scēawa nú on anum æge, hú þæt hwite ne bið gemenged to ðam geolcan, and bið hwæðere án æg. Nis eac Cristes godcundnys gerunnen to ðære menniscnysse, ac he þurhwunað þeah á on ecnysse on anum hade untotwæmed.


 * 1) to examine, scrutinize
 * 2) to show (+accusative)
 * 3) * late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
 * "ang"

- ...Gyf ðū ēnigne gōdne heorde hæbbe þe wel cunne healdan þæt þæt þū gestrēone and him befæste, scēawa hyne me;