onhebban

From on- +‎ hebban (“raise”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈonˌxeb.bɑn/, [ˈonˌheb.bɑn]

onhebban

1. to raise up, heave up, erect, lift up, exalt
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 30‎^[1]:

     Þonne iċ mec onhebbe ond hī onhnīgaþ tō mē, moniġe mid miltse, þǣr iċ monnum sceal īċan upcyme ēadiġnesse.

     When I raise myself up and they bow down to me, many with mercy, then I shall increase rising of happiness for men.

2. to leaven
3. to begin
4. to take away, remove

• hebban

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