orþung

From orþian (“to breathe, pant”) +‎ -ung

• IPA^(key): /ˈor.θunɡ/, [ˈorˠ.ðuŋɡ]

orþung f

1. breath
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

     Syllaba is stæfġefēġ on ānre orþung ġeendod.

     [Latin] Syllaba is a syllable ended in a breath.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Æfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.

     After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.

Strong ō-stem:

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