getacnian

Old English

Equivalent to ġe- +‎ tācnian.

ġetācnian

to signify, denote, mean
- late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
  Nū synd sume men þe nyton hwæt sē nama [Cathedra Sancti Petri] ġetacnaþ.
  Now there are some men who don't know what the name Cathedra Sancti Petri means.
(literal) to sign, mark
to mark as a witness; to set one's seal
to represent symbolically, be the symbol of
to prefigure

Conjugation of ġetācnian (weak class 2)

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠETĀCNIAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠETĀCNIAN supplementary entry”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.