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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *huggjan, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną (“think, consider”). Cognate with Old Saxon huggian, Old High German huggen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan).
Pronunciation
Verb
hyċġan
- to think
10th century, The Wanderer:…þæt biþ in eorle · indryhten þēaw,
þæt hē his ferðlocan · fæste binde,
healde his hordcōfan; · hyċġe swā hē wille.- …that a noble habit is in a brave man,
that he would tightly bind his spirit,
keep his treasure-chamber; think as he want.
- to think about, to think of, to consider
- "The Wife's Lament"
Ongunnon þæt þæs mannes māgas hyċġan þurh dierne ġeþōht þæt hīe tōdǣlden unc.- The person's relatives began to think of a secret plan to separate us.
Usage notes
The conjugation table below shows the inherited forms of hyċġan, with hy(ċ)ġ- throughout the present tense and hogd- throughout the past. These are the normal forms in Early West Saxon. In the other dialects and Late West Saxon, it was often inflected as a weak class II verb hogian.
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