tô, I. prep. w. dat. indicating direction or tending to, hence: 1) local = whither after verbs of motion, _to, up to, at_: com tô recede (_to the hall_), 721; eode tô sele, 920; eode tô hire freán sittan, 642; gæð eft ... tô medo (_goeth again to mead_), 605; wand tô wolcnum (_wound to the welkin_), 1120; sigon tô slæpe (_sank to sleep_), 1252; 28, 158, 234, 438, 553, 926, 1010, 1014, 1155, 1159, 1233, etc.; lîð-wæge bär hælum tô handa (_bore the ale-cup to the hands of the men? at hand?_), 1984; ôð þät niht becom ôðer tô yldum, 2118; him tô bearme cwom mâððum-fät mære (_came to his hands, into his possession_), 2405; sælde tô sande sîd-fäðme scip (_fastened the broad-bosomed ship to the shore_), 1918; þat se harm-scaða tô Heorute â-teáh (_went forth to Heorot_), 767. After verb sittan: site nu tô symble (_sit now to the meal_), 489; siððan ... we tô symble geseten häfdon, 2105; tô ham (_home, at home_), 124, 374, 2993. With verbs of speaking: maðelode tô his wine-drihtne (_spake to his friendly lord_), 360; tô Geátum sprec, 1172; so, hêht þät heaðo-weorc tô hagan biódan (_bade the battle-work be told at the hedge_), 2893.--2) with verbs of bringing and taking (cf. under on, I., d): hraðe wäs tô bûre Beówulf fetod (_B. was hastily brought from a room_), 1311; siððan Hâma ät-wäg tô þære byrhtan byrig Brôsinga mene (_since H. carried the Brosing-necklace off from the bright city_), 1200; weán âhsode. fæhðo to Frysum (_suffered woe, feud as to, from, the Frisians_), 1208.--3) =end of motion, hence: a) _to, for, as, in_: þone god sende folce tô frôfre (_for, as, a help to the folk_), 14; gesette ... sunnan and mônan leóman to leóhte (_as a light_), 95; ge-sät ... tô rune (_sat in counsel_), 172; wearð he Heaðo-lâfe tô hand-bonan, 460; bringe ... tô helpe (_bring to, for, help_), 1831; Jofore forgeaf ângan dôhtor ... hyldo tô wedde (_as a pledge of his favor_), 2999; so, 508(?), 666, 907, 972, 1022, 1187, 1263, 1331, 1708, 1712, 2080, etc.; secgan tô sôðe (_to say in sooth_), 51; so, 591, 2326. b) with verbs of thinking, hoping, etc., _on, for, at, against_: he tô gyrn-wräce swîðor þôhte þonne tô sæ-lâde (_thought more on vengeance than on the sea-voyage_), 1139; säcce ne wêneð tô Gâr-Denum (_nor weeneth of conflict with the Spear-Danes_), 602; þonne wêne ic tô þe wyrsan geþinges (_then I expect for thee a worse result_), 525; ne ic to Sweóþeóde sibbe oððe treówe wihte ne wêne (_nor expect at all of, from, the Swedes_ ...), 2923; wiste þäm ahlæcan tô þäm heáh-sele hilde ge-þinged (_battle prepared for the monster in the high hall_), 648; wel bið þäm þe mot tô fäder fäðmum freoðo wilnian (_well for him that can find peace in the Father's arms_), 188; þâra þe he ge-worhte tô West-Denum (_of those that he wrought against the West-Danes_), 1579.--4) with the gerund, inf.: tô gefremmanne (_to do_), 174; tô ge-cýðanne (_to make known_), 257; tô secganne (_to say_), 473; to befleónne (_to avoid, escape_), 1004; so, 1420, 1725, 1732, 1806, 1852,