hnægan

• IPA^(key): /ˈxnæː.jɑn/, [ˈn̥æː.jɑn]

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with Old Saxon tōhnēgian (“to neigh at”), Old Norse hneggja, gneggja (“to neigh”).

hnǣġan

1. to neigh

   Þā sē ridda cōm his hors sadolian, þā hnǣġde hit blīðelīċe.

   When the rider came to saddle his horse, it neighed happily.

• hnǣgung

• Middle English: neyen, neye, nye, nyen, nyȝen, naye, ney, nehyn, nyȝe, nyghe (Late Middle English), nee (Catholicon Anglicum), neyyn (Promptorium Parvulorum)
  • English: neigh
  • Middle Scots: ney, nee, nie, nye

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “hnǣgan²”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hnǽgan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hnaigijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnaigijaną (“to humble”), the causative of *hnīganą (Old English hnīgan).

hnǣġan

1. (rare, poetic) to humble; to bring low or cause to bow (of an enemy)

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “hnǣgan¹”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hnǽgan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.