geswebban

Old English

Etymology

By surface analysis, ġe- +‎ swebban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeˈsweb.bɑn/

Verb

ġeswebban

1. to lull to sleep
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Æfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.

     After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ġeswebban (weak, class 1)

infinitive	ġeswebban	ġeswebbenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	ġeswebbe	ġeswefede
second person singular	ġeswefest	ġeswefedest
third person singular	ġeswefeþ	ġeswefede
plural	ġeswebbaþ	ġeswefedon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	ġeswebbe	ġeswefede
plural	ġeswebben	ġeswefeden
imperative
singular	ġeswefe
plural	ġeswebbaþ
participle	present	past
	ġeswebbende	ġeswefed

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ge-swebban”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.