Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

be-hwylfan

  • verb [ weak ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
be-hwylfan, p. -hwylfde; pp. -hwylfed
To cover or vault over; operire, obruere
Show examples
  • Ne behwylfan mæg heofon and eorþe his wuldres word

    the word of his glory may not cover over heaven and earth

    • Cd. 163
    • ;
    • Th. 204, 28
    • ;
    • Exod. 426.
Similar entries
v. hwylfan.
Linked entries
v.  á-hwilfan be-hwylfan.
Full form

Word-wheel

  • be-hwylfan, v.