bennian

From benn +‎ -ian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈben.ni.ɑn/

bennian

1. to wound

   10th century, Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book‎:

   Ic eom anhaga iserne wund bille gebennad beadoweorca sæd ecgum werig

   I am a lonely thing, wounded with iron, smitten by sword, sated with battle-work, weary of blades.

• wundian

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “bennian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.