gesellan – Old English verb conjugation

ġesellan

ġesellenne

Present	ġesellende
Past	ġeseald

Singular	ġesele
Plural	ġesellaþ

Equivalent to ġe- + sellan.

(a) to entrust, commit give into the keeping of
(b) to give in marriage
(c) to give up or yield up to a hostile power (with dative and/or preposition)
(d) to betray
(e) to dedicate to God, consecrate
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Þā cōm hē tō Ōswiæ Norðanhymbra cyninge, ⁊ bæd þæt hē him Ealhflæde his dohtor tō wīfe ġesealde.
Then he cam to Osweo, king of Northumbria, and asked that he give him Ealflæd, his daughter, as his wife.
(a) to sell for (+ wiþ)
(b) to sell at (+ tō)
(c) to sell
(d) to give in payment
Laws of King Ine
Ðonne mon bēam on wuda forbǣrne, ⁊ weorðe yppe on þone ðe hit dȳde, ġielde hē fulwīte: ġeselle LX sċill., forþamþe fȳr bið þēof. (If a man burns up a tree in a forest, and it becomes known who did it, he shall pay a full fine: he shall pay sixty shillings, for fire is a thief.)
(a) to cause to receive a benefit or injury
(b) to produce a state or feeling in a person or thing

Old English verb forms of gesellan