- anginn
- n (-es/-) 1. a beginning, attempt, onset; 2. an enterprise, undertaking, attempt; 2a. intention, purpose, design, enterprise, undertaking, opportunity; 3. persistant effort, resolve, enterprise, endeavor, pertinacity; þǽra þegna anginn…þæt híe noldon þæs weallgebreces geswícan the pertinacity of the thanes in not desisting from breaking down the wall; 3a. practice of a rite, study; 4. attempt on, attack, onset; 5. gesture, action; 6. action, proceedings, behavior, treatment; 7. rising (of sun); 8. tip (of finger);
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.