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Middle English
Preposition
togeanes
- Alternative form of toyenes
Adverb
togeanes
- Alternative form of toyenes
Old English
Etymology
An adverbial genitive form of togægn.
Pronunciation
Adverb
tōġēanes
- towards
- c. 992, Ælfric, "ON THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY"
Maria, Cristes moder, bær þæt cild, and se ealda Symeon eode hire tōġēanes, and gecneow þæt cild ðurh onwrigenysse, and hit beclypte and bær into ðam temple.- Mary, Christ's mother, bare the child, and the old Simeon went towards her, and knew the child through revelation, and took it in his arms and bare it into the temple.
Preposition
tōġēanes
- against, towards
Descendants