tosamne
Middle English
Old English
Etymology
From to- + samne.
Adverb
tōsamne
- together
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
- Iċ wēne þēah, ġif wit ġīet uncru word tōsamne slēaþ, þæt þǣr āspringe sum spearca upp sōþfæstnesse þāra þe wit ǣr ne ġesāwon.
- I think though that if we keep striking our words together, some spark of truth will spring up that we haven't seen before.
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “tó-samne”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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