- would(wished) [to] sell'(give). ¶ Nu ne ƿandode ic na
minum sceattum, þa
hƿile þe eoƿ unfrið on
handa stod: nu ic mid-godes
fultume þæt totƿæmde mid-minum...
- Þæt ic bi me
sylfum secgan wille, þæt ic
hwile wæs
Heodeninga scop,
dryhtne dyre. Me wæs Deor noma. Ahte ic fela
wintra folgað tilne,
holdne hlaford,...
- infrequently,
though the
usage was stable. Even in Old English,
usage of
hwile ("while") was much more commonplace, with its
frequency some six
times as...
- eny god And ofte lude &
stille for to vor-drye hire wille. Heo wepeþ oþer-
hwile for to do þe gyle
Salomon hit haueþ i-sed þat
wymmon can wel
vuelne red...
- norðēast, sūðēast, sūðwest, and norðwest. A few set phrases,
including ealle hwīle ("the
whole time",
literally "all/whole while"), be weġe ("on the way",...
- beoð unforbærned ; and licgað
bufan eorðan on hyra husum : and
ealle ƿa
hwile, ƿe ƿæt lic bið inne, ƿær
sceal beon gedrync, and plega, oð ðonne dæg, ƿe...
- est gesægde; cwæð þæt hyt hæfde *Hiorogar cyning, leod
Scyldunga lange hwile; no ðy ær suna
sinum syllan wolde,
hwatum Heorowearde, þeah he him hold...
- and hine swa
blindne brohte to ðam munecon, and he þar
wunode ða
hwile þe he lyfode. Syððan hine man byrigde, swa him wel gebyrede, ful wurðlice...
- heom to lage
sylfum gesettan and on unclænnesse
heora life al
lyfedan þa
hwile ðe hi wæron. Ac se bið gesælig þe eal
swylc oferhogað and ðone soðan Godd...
