Obs. 1–2. (g hard) Also anginn, -gun (ü). [cogn. w. OE. an-, ǫn-ginn-an to begin.] A beginning.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gen. i. 1. On anginne ʓescéop God heofenan and eorþan.
c. 1160. Hatt. Gosp. Jo. i. 1. On anginne (Ags. G. frymðe) ærest wæs word.
c. 1175. Cott. Hom., 237. Fram middenardes anginn.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 107. Ech iuel þonc · and speche · and dede … sam it haue angun or þe mannes lichames wille, sam it haue þe biginning of the deules fortuhting.
