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Substitute: A place where roads meet, where one road opens into another. Cf. ge-lætan;
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  • Biuium twégra wega gelǽte, triuium þreóra wega gelǽtu,

    competum

    fela gelǽtu,
      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 31, 5-7.

  • In twéga wega gelǽte in bino (= biuio, Mk. 11, 4), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 40:

    in biuio,

      46, 47.

  • Þæt wíf æt þǽra wega gelǽte (

    in bivio

    ) sæt,
      Gen. 38, 21.

  • Twégra wega gelǽtu biuium, þreóra

    triuium,

      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 288, 9.

  • Þá belocenan wega gelǽta conpeta clausa, Wrt. Voc. ii. 19, 56.

    Competalia

    æt þám wega gelǽtum wǽran,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 28: 19, 2.

  • Þá hǽðenan æt wega gelǽtum him lác offrodon,

      Wlfst. 107, 4.

  • Gif wífman hire cild æt wega gelǽton (

    ad compita viarum

    ) þurh þá eorðan tíhð,
      Ll. Th. ii. 210, 18: Hml. S. 17, 148.

  • Gáð tó wega gelǽtum (geléta, L.)

    ite ad exitus viarum,

      Mt. 22, 9: Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 13: 9, 2.

  • Gilétum,

      Rtl. 107, 35.

  • Æt woegena gelétum

    in biuio,

      Mk. L. R. 11, 4.

  • Andlang strǽte oþ þǽra strǽta gelǽto,

      C. D. iii. 436, 22.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. ge-láz commissura, conjunctura, exitus (viarum).]
Similar entries
v. þeóh-gelǽte, weg-gelǽte.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-lǽte.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/48564.

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