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ge-sǽlþ

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Wright's OE grammar
§372;
Add: ge-sǽlþu, ge-sǽlþo.
a hap, fortune, an event
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  • Of gesundfullum gesǽlþum

    secundis, i. prosperis successibus, i. fortunis,

      An. Ox. 3633.
happiness, good fortune,
favourable condition
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  • Micel gesǽlð bið þé, þæt ðú on ðínre gesǽlðe ne forfare,

      Th. ii. 392, 33.

  • Ðonne hié gesióð ðára óðerra gesǽlðo (-a, v. l.) eáciende

    dum augmenta auenae prosperitatis aspiciunt,

      Past. 230, 19.

  • Sume bióð tó ungemetlíce blíðe for sumum gesǽlðum,

      455, 8.
happiness, blessedness. Cf. ge-sǽlig; III
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  • Hæfde God þæs mannes sáwle gegódod. . .mid undeádlicnysse and mid gesǽlðe... wé forluron þá gesǽlðe úre sáwle, Hml. Th. i. 20, 1-3. III a.

    the happiness

    of heaven :-- On Crístes ríce is éce gesǽlð and eádignys,
      Hml. Th. i. 460, 18.

  • Englas on gesǽlðe libbende,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 2, 26.

  • Gif hié geðenceað ðára gesǽlða ðe him ungeendode becuman sculon

    si attendatur felicitas, quae sine transitu attingitur,

      Past. 407, 30.
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v. un-sǽlþ, weorold-sǽlþ, ge-sǽlþ.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sǽlþ.” 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/49466.

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