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be.pst.3sg

Attested in Exeter Book Riddle 47, Exeter Book Riddle 51, Sellic Spell, Ætherlwold's Reforms, Ælfric's Lives of Saints - Saint Eugenia

Lemma: bēon "be"
Component of compounds
næs "was not"

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