[tô-geánes, tô-genes], prep, against, towards: Grendle tôgeánes, towards Grendel, against Grendel, [667]; grâp þâ tôgeánes, she grasped at (Beówulf), [1502]; similarly, him tôgeánes fêng, [1543]; eodon him þâ tôgeánes, went towards him, [1627]; hêt þâ gebeódan ... þät hie bæl-wudu feorran feredon gôdum tôgênes, had it ordered that they should bring the wood from far for the funeral-pyre towards the good man (i.e. to the place where the dead Beówulf lay), [3115].

[geáp], adj., roomy, extensive, wide: nom. sg. reced ... geáp, the roomy hall, [1801]; acc. sg. under geápne hrôf, [837].—Comp.: horn-, sæ-geáp.

[geâr], st. n., year: nom. sg., [1135]; gen. pl. geâra, in adverbial sense, olim, in former times, [2665]. See [un-geâra].

[geâr-dagas], st. m. pl., former days: dat. pl. in (on) geâr-dagum, [1], [1355].

[geofe]. See [gifu].

[geofon, gifen, gyfen] (see Kuhn Zeitschr. I. 137), st. n., sea, flood: nom. sg. geofon, [515]; gifen geótende, the streaming flood, [1691]; gen. sg. geofenes begang, [362]; gyfenes, [1395].

[geogoð], st. f.: 1) youth, time of youth: dat. sg. on geogoðe, [409], [466], [2513]; on giogoðe, [2427]; gen. gioguðe, [2113].—2) contrasted with duguð, the younger warriors of lower rank (about as in the Middle Ages, the squires with the knights): nom. sg. geogoð, [66]; giogoð, [1191]; acc. sg. geogoðe, [1182]; gen. duguðe and geogoðe, [160]; duguðe and iogoðe (geogoðe), [1675], [622].

[geoguð-feorh], st. n., age of youth, i.e. age in which one still belongs in the ranks of the geogoð: on geogoð- (geoguð-) feore, [537], [2665].

[geohðo]. See gehðo.

[geolo], adj., yellow: acc. sg. geolwe linde (the shield of yellow linden bark), [2611].