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leóht-líce

  • adverb
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Grammar
leóht-líce, adv.
Lightly, slightly, gently, without trouble or effort, easily, quickly
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  • Swá swá leóhtlíce gebylged

    quasi leviter indignata,

    • Bd. 4, 9
    • ;
    • S. 577, 24
    • .
  • Swá swá hé leóhtlíce onslǽpte

    quasi leviter obdormiens,

    • 4, 11
    • ;
    • S. 580, 2
    • .
  • Geswét swíðe leóhtlíce mid hunige

    sweeten very slightly with honey,

    • L. M. 1, 2
    • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 36, 3
    • :
    • 1, 19
    • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 62, 20
    • .
  • Hí forléton ða scipo ðus leóhtlíce ... and léton ealles þeódscipes geswincg ðus leóhtlíce forwurþan

    they abandoned the ships thus lightly ... and let all the nation's labour thus lightly come to nought,

    • Chr. 1009
    • ;
    • Erl. 142, 10-13
    • .
  • Ða weras mon sceal hefiglecor lǽran and ða wíf leóhtlecor illis

    [men] graviora, istis [women] injungenda sunt leviora,

    • Past. 24
    • ;
    • Swt. 179. 16
    • .
  • [Swá swá heó líhtlucost mihten

    as quickly as they could,

    • Th. An. 143, 21
    • .]
Etymology
[
Icel. létt-liga lightly, easily, readily
:
O. H. Ger. líht-líhho leniter, levius
:
Ger. leicht-lich.
]
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v.  leóht-líc líht-líce.
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  • leóht-líce, adv.