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Old English
Etymology
From be- + sincan. Cognate with Old Saxon bisinkan.
Pronunciation
Verb
besincan
- to sink, submerge
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Æfter þǣm þe Rōmeburg ġetimbred wæs III hunde wintra ⁊ LXXVI, wæs in Achie eorþbeofung, ⁊ twā byriġ, Ebora ⁊ Elice, on eorþan besuncon.- Three hundred seventy-six years after the city of Rome was built, there was an earthquake in Achaea and two cities, Ebora and Helice, sunk into the ground.
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