Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

hæg-steald

Dictionary links
Add: a tiro, novice
Show examples

  • Warna ǽr cniht beón þænne hægesteald ł geong cempa

    caue ante miles esse quam tiro,

      Scint. 205, 9.

  • Sé ðe hehstald (uirgo) gecoren is . . . ꝥte ðá hehstald hehstald gehealde

    (ut uirginem uirgo seruarei),

      Jn. p. l, 2-5.

  • Ðǽr hehstalde

    uirgini,

      2, 4.

  • Of heghstald

    ex uirgine.

      Mt. p. 13, 2.

  • Swylce geongum hægstealde, rince, hysse

    ut effebo hircitallo,

      An. Ox. 3476.

  • Ðerh ꝥ hehstald

    per uirginem,

      Jn. p. i. 13.

  • Alle hehstalde ðá ilco,

      Mt. 25, 7.

  • Hehstaldo, ii. -¶

    In a local name

    :-- Ad locum qui dicitur
      Hægstaldescumb, C. D. B. i. 97, 23.

  • Hegsteldescumb,

      C. D. v. 104, l.
Etymology
[Thu worrf seems to mean at first the owner (cf. Goth. sealdan to own) of a hæg, a small piece of land insufficient to maintain a household). Cf. Hagustaldes-ea.]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “hæg-steald.” 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/51485.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • hæg-steald,

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.