ontynan

• untȳnan

From on- +‎ tȳnan.

• IPA^(key): /onˈtyː.nɑn/

ontȳnan

1. to open, to loose, to free
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Þū ūs clypast tō ūrunm weġe, and ūs ġelēdest tō þǣre dura and ūs ðā untȳnst,...

     Thou callest us back to our way, and leadest us to the door, and openest to us,...

   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     ...ac untīn mē þīne dura...

     ...but open to me Thy door,...

   • 10th century, Cynewulf, Elene, 1228–1231

     ...Sie þara manna gehwam
     behliden helle duru, heofones ontyned,
     ece geopenad engla rice,
     dream unhwilen...

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to disclose, reveal, display

• ontȳnnes (“opening, discovery”)

• Middle English: untinen, untynen
  • English: untine

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ontynan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.