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mǽg

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Wright's OE grammar
§119; §120; §161; §324; §336;
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a kinsman
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  • Gif áðer oþþe mǽg oþþe fremde þá ráde forsace,

      Ll. Th. i. 268, 21.
  • Léte heó hit tó sweolcum hire méga swelce hit hire tó geearnigan wille,

      C. D. ii. 100, 22.
  • Ðis wæs gedón ou gewitnesse his ágenra mága Æðelstánes and Æðelhúnnes and eác Alhmundes his ágenes sunu, v. 141, 22.
  • Ic hátu cýðan . . . mínum mégum and gefeórum, ii. 120, 5.
  • On mínum geongum mágum, 176, 3. I a. a parent, kinsman of an earlier generation :-- On Ines dæge mínes

    (Alfred's)

    mǽges,
      Ll. Th. i. 58, 24.
  • Be wurþscipe mága (parentum) . . . ne scylon bearn (filii) mágum

    (parentibus)

    goldhordian ac mágas bearnum,
      Scint. 173, 7 -3.
  • Bearn, beó gé underðiódde eówrum ieldrum mágum

    filii, obedite parentibus vestris,

      Past. 189, 22.
  • Of hǽþenum mágum

    ethnicis parentibus (oriundus)

    ,
      An. Ox. 2417.
kindred involved legal responsibility of its members to one another.
where one member was criminal, or subject to criminal prosecution
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  • Áð syllan ꝥ hý on heora mǽge náne þýfðe nyston,

      Ll. Th. i. 206, 2.
  • Gif hé clǽne beó nime hé upp his mǽg,

      296, 10.
  • Beó hé feówertig nihta on carcerne . . . and his mǽgas (mágas,

    v. l.

    ) hine féden gif hé self mete næbbe,
      60, 10: 120, 6: 124, 7: 148, 18: 164, 11: 202, 15: 206, 5: 228, 26 : 238, 31 : 286, 32.
  • Gif hwylc his mága hine feormige, þonne beó hé scyldig ealles þæs þe hé áhte,

      248, 8,
    , nime hé his mága .xii. . . . , ii. 298, 8.
  • Gehealden hí hine .xxx. nihta, and hié hine his mǽgum (mágum,

    v. l.

    ) gebodien, i.
      64, 19.
  • His mǽgum and his frióndum,

      90, 8.
of conditions when a kinsman was injured
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  • Ne gebyreð nánum mǽge ꝥ feoh búte þám þe sý binnan cneówe, Ll Th. i. 174, 25.
  • Hæbbe hé his mæg forworht

    he shall have forfeited all claim to compensation in respect to his injured kinsman,

      90, 20.
  • Gif mon elþeódigne ofsleá, se cyning áh twǽdne dǽl weres. þriddan dǽl sunu oþþe mǽgas (mágas,

    v. l.

    ),
      116, 15.
  • Ágife mon þám mǽgum (mágum,

    v. l.

    ) ꝥ treów,
      70, 10; 118, 8: 148, 15: 164, 13: 202, 16: 250, 15 : 406, 26.
  • Se wer gebirað mágum (mǽgðe,

    v. l.

    ),
      186, 4.
where protection, assistance, support, is given
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  • Mon mót feohtan mid his geborene mǽge,

      Ll. Th. i. 90, 24.
  • Gif man gehádodne oþþe ælðeódigne forrǽde . . . , þonne sceal him cyng beón, oþþon eorl þǽr on lande and bisceop þǽre leóde, for mæg and for mundboran, búton hé elles óðerne hǽbbe,

      174, 8: 348, 6.
  • Healden þá mǽgas (mágas,

    v. l.) þone frumstól oþ þæt hit (a minor whose father is dead )

    gewintred sié,
      126, 6.
  • Fón mágas tó and weddian heora mágan tó wífe,

      254, 20.
  • Ládige hé mid his mágan þe fǽhðe móton mid beran,

      344, 26: 362, 23.
  • Gif hwylc landleás man . . . eft his mágas geséce,

      204, 6.
as cognisant of matters affecting the kindred
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  • Ꝥ on cyninges and on biscopes gewitnesse gerecce beforan his mǽgum. Ll. Th. i. 88, 2J.
by the law of the church marriage was forbidden within certain limits of kinship
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  • Wé lǽrað . . . ꝥ ǽnig crísten mann binnan .vi. manna sibfæce on his ágenan cynne ǽfre ne gewítie, ne on his mǽges láfe þe swá neáhsib wǽre,

      Ll. Th. i. 364, 23.
  • III a. of illicit intercourse :---
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. may a kinsman.]
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v. fædering-, níd-, un-mǽg; ge-nídmágas.
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