aþencan

From Proto-West Germanic *uzþankijan. Cognate with Old High German irdenken (German erdenken). Equivalent to ā- +‎ þenċan.

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈθen.t͡ʃɑn/

āþenċan

1. to think of something (meaning "conceive of" or "invent," not "think about")
   • The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn

     Hwelċ mann āþōhte ǣrest mid sylh tō erienne?

     Which person first thought of plowing the ground with a plow?

2. to make up something

   Mīn sōþung is þæt iċ hit āþōhte!

   My proof is that I made it up!

3. to intend

• orþanc

• onfindan

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