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un-nyt

  • adjective
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un-nyt, un-nyt; adj.
Useless, vain, idle, unprofitable
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  • Unnyt sprǽc

    fabula,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 146, 64.

  • Nán bróðor ymbe ídelnesse and unnette sprǽce (unnytte sprǽca, v.l.) beó ... ne biþ hé ná him ánum unnyt

    ne frater vacet otioso et fabulis ... non solum sibi inutilis est,

    • R. Ben. 74, 15-18.

  • Unlǽde bið on eorðan, unnyt lífes, se þurh ðone cantic ne can Crist geherian,

    • Salm. Kmbl. 42
      • ;
    • Sal. 21.

  • Nis him nán wuht unnyt ðæs ðe hé gesceóp,

    • Bt. 39, 5
      • ;
    • Fox 218, 17.

  • Ðes wída grund stód ídel and unnyt,

    • Cd. Th. 7, 14
      • ;
    • Gen. 106: Beo. Th. 830
      • ;
    • B. 413.

  • Unnet gelp,

    • Met. 10, 17.

  • Ádó of his móde fela ðara ymbhogona ðe him unnet sié (cf. ungerisenlíce ymbhogan, Bt. 29, 3; Fox 106, 19),

    • 16, 6: 22, 10.

  • Hit wæs unnet gebod,

    • Bt. 41, 3
      • ;
    • Fox 246, 32.

  • Se unnytta and forhogoda

    inrita,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 48, 65.

  • His word beóð gehwyrfedo tó unnyttre ofersprǽce,

    • Past. 21
      • ;
    • Swt. 165, 17.

  • Ðý unnyttan

    nugaci,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 69.

  • Gehæft mid ðære unnyttan lufe ðisse middangeardes,

    • Bt. 34, 8
      • ;
    • Fox 144, 25.

  • Unnytne gefeán,

    • Met. 5, 27.

  • Unnytne andan,

    • Bt. 39, 3
      • ;
    • Fox 214, 33.

  • Unnetne,

    • Met. 28, 52.

  • Hwæþer ðæt sié tó talianne wáclíc and unnyt

    num imbecillum, ac sine viribus aestimandum est?

    • Bt. 24, 4
      • ;
    • Fox 86, 16.

  • Ðone ídelan hlísan and ðone unnyttan gilp,

    • 19
      • ;
    • Fox 68, 21.

  • Ðone unnyttan þeówan

    inutilem servum,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 25, 30.

  • Hí lufiaþ ðæt hí sýn ídle and unnytte

    inutiles facti sunt,

    • Ps. Th. 13, 4.

  • Unnetta saca

    vain disputes,

    • Met. 25, 44.

  • Heora hǽþenan gild wǽron ídelu and unnyt,

    • Blickl. Homl. 223, 2.

  • Áfyr fram ðé ða yfelan sǽlþa and ða unnettan, and eác ða unnettan ungesǽlþa,

    • Bt. 6
      • ;
    • Fox 14, 32.

  • Ðonne ðæt mód bið on monig tódǽled, hit bið on ánes hwæm ðý unnyttre ... Oft ðonne mon forlét ða fæstrǽdnesse ... hine spænð his mód tó swíðe monegum unnyttum weorce ... Hé swíður his mód gebint tó ðǽm unnyttan (-nyttran, Hatt. MS.) weorcum ðonne hé ðyrfe,

    • Past. 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 36
      • ;
    • 14-21.

  • Rǽd biþ nyttost, yfel unnyttost,

    • Exon. Th. 341, 2
      • ;
    • Gn. Ex. 120.

  • Ðæs hádes men ðe hwýlum wǽron nyttoste ... syndon nú unnyttaste,

    • L. I. P. 14
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 322, 21.
Etymology
[
O. E. Homl. un-nit, -net, -nut
:
A. R. un-nut, -net
:
Orm. un nitt
:
Goth. un-nutis inutilis
:
O. H. Ger. un-nuz[z] inutilis, cassus, otiosus, ignavus
:
Icel. ú-nýtr.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-nyt.” 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/33580.

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