Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

folc-truma

(n.)
Grammar
folc-truma, an; m. [truma a band, troop]

A host of people ⬩ people ⬩ pŏpŭli cohors ⬩ pŏpŭlus

Entry preview:

Folctruman andettaþ ðé pŏpŭli confĭtēbuntur tĭbi, 44, 18. Drihten démþ folctruman Dŏmĭnus jūdicat pŏpŭlos, 7, 9: 9, 9: 46, 4

Linked entry: truma

luf-líc

(adj.)
Grammar
luf-líc, adj.

Lovely ⬩ lovable ⬩ amiable ⬩ dear

Entry preview:

Cild ácenned gód luflíc a child born at this time will be good and amiable, Lchdm. iii. 190, 5. Hú luflíce geteld ðín how amiable are thy tabernacles; quam dilecta tabernacula tua, Ps. Spl. 83, 1

Linked entry: lufe-líc

récan

(v.)
Grammar
récan, p. réhte
Entry preview:

Ðám mannum ðe fram ðære teóþan tíde ne geseóþ, ðæs ylcan drinces smýc heora eágan onfón and mid ðam broþe récen, and ða lifre wǽten, and gníden and mid smyrgen, Lchdm. i. 346, 22

Linked entry: reócan

wólbǽrness

(n.)
Grammar
wólbǽrness, e; f.

Pestiferousness ⬩ destructivity

Entry preview:

Pestiferousness, destructivity Ic wolde ðæt ða ongeáten, ðe ða tída úres cristendómes leahtriaþ, hwelc mildsung siþþan wæs, siþþan se cristendóm wæs, and hú monigfeald wólbǽrnes ðære worulde ǽr ðæm wæs (with how many kinds of plagues the world was afflicted

wyn-dæg

(n.)
Grammar
wyn-dæg, es; m.

A day of gladness ⬩ a joyous time

Entry preview:

A day of gladness, a joyous time Wǽrun wudubearwas on wyndagum exultabunt omnia ligna sylvarum, Ps. Th. 95, 12. Ne móstun gé á wunian in wyndagum, ac scofene wurdon in éce fýr, Exon. Th. 140, 3; Gú. 604.

be-hogian

(v.)
Entry preview:

Substitute: to take care of, attend to, be solicitous about Hé behogode þá tíde þæs nihtlican gebedes, Gr. D. 170, 28. Ðá ðe his líc behogodon qui funus ejus curaverant, 297, 17. Ealdor þe georne behogige (curiose intendat) hwæþer hé God geséce, R.

ge-sǽliglic

Entry preview:

Hú gesǽliglica tída ðá wǽron giond Angelcynn, Past. 3, 4

Linked entry: sǽlig-lic

grínu

(adj.)
Entry preview:

(The word occurs in a list with the title 'Nomina colorum'.) Hwít albus, grionu avidius, giolu aureus, ii. 10, 29

lencten-tíma

(n.)
Grammar
lencten-tíma, an ; m.
Entry preview:

spring-time, spring Lengtentíma and cildiugoð geþwǽrlǽcað . . . Lengtentíma ys wǽt and wearm, Angl. viii. 299, 25-28. Lententíma vernale tempus An.

ofer-wreón

Entry preview:

Mæht ðæs hésta oferwríð (-wrígað, L. ) ðec uirtus altissimi obumbrabit tibi, Lk. R. 1. 35. 'Awyrp mé hyder þínne scyccels . . . ꝥ ic mæge þá wíflican týddernysse oferwreón'. . . Héé Oferwreág cooperuit, Ps. L. 43, 16.

be-cuman

to come ⬩ get, ⬩ to come to power ⬩ get into trouble ⬩ to come to ⬩ by ⬩ to cometo a person ⬩ to befall ⬩ to become ⬩ behove

Entry preview:

H. 203, 2. temporal Hé tó þám seofoþan dæge ne becymð he will not live till the seventh day, Lch. iii. 76, 23. Ðá þá seó hálige tíd lenctenfæstenes becom on þone drihtenlican dæg when Lent had got to the Sunday, Hml.

écan

(v.)
Grammar
écan, ǽcan, ícan, iécan, ýcan, ýcean, ic éce, ðú écest, he écþ, pl. écaþ; p. écte, pl. écton, éhton; pp. éced [eáca an addition]

EKE, increase, prolong, add ⬩ augēre, appōnĕre

Entry preview:

Hwæt biþ ðé ealles seald oððe éced swá from ðære inwitfullan yflan tungan quid dētur tĭbi aut quid appōnātur tĭbi a lingua dŏlōsa? 119, 3

Linked entries: ǽcan ge-ícan

ge-hirwan

Entry preview:

On ðá tiid ðe se biscephád swá gehiered (gehéned, v. l. ) suá huelc swá hine underféng, hé underféng martyrdóm. On ðá tiid wæs to herigeanne ðæt mon wilnode biscephádes, Past. 53, 18.

Linked entry: ge-hyrwan

ge-lást

Entry preview:

Cf. gelǽstan; 2 Þé bið ágolden gelást tibi reddetur uotum, Ps. Rdr. 64, 2: Bl. Gl. Ic ágylde þé gelást míne reddam tibi uota mea, Ps. Rdr. 65, 13. what is paid as a due, a (fixed) contribution.

samod

Entry preview:

Ic nú þás þing wríte tó þé gemǽnelíce and tó mínre méder and mínum geswustrum, forþon incer lufu sceal beón somod gemǽne tibi et matri mee sororibusque meis de regni mei commodis scribebam, que tibi et illis communia esse arbitror, Nar. 3, 9.

sam-tinges

(adv.)
Grammar
sam-tinges, (sæm-, sem-); adv.

immediately, forthwith, ⬩ continuo

Entry preview:

In close connection (as regards time), immediately, forthwith, continuo Meahtest ðé full recen on ðæm rodere upan siððan weorþan, and ðonne samtenges æt ðæm ælcealdan steorran, Met. 24, 18.

Linked entries: -tinges sæm-tinges

tímlíce

(adv.)
Grammar
tímlíce, adv.

In good time, ⬩ soon

Entry preview:

In good time, soon Ðú bǽde mé foroft Engliscra gewritena and ic ðé ne getíðode ealles swá tímlíce ǽr ðam ðe ðú mid geweorcum ðæs gewilnodest æt mé you very often asked me for English writings, but I did not grant your request so very soon, not before

lǽst

(n.)

act ⬩ performance

Entry preview:

Nalles hige gehyrdon háliges láre siððan leófes leóþ lǽste neár swég swiðrode they did not neglect the holy one's [Moses] teaching, after the loved one's lay, when the time drew nearer for action [crossing the Red Sea], and his voice died away, Cd. 158

bul

(n.)
Grammar
bul, bula; m.
Entry preview:

Bulas gyldenno gidóe wé ðé murenulas aureas faciemus tibi, Rtl. 4, 3

eald-land

(n.)
Grammar
eald-land, es; n.
Entry preview:

Old-land, land that has remained long untilled: (cf. old-land ground that has lain untilled a long time and is now ploughed up; arable land which has been laid down in grass more than two years. D.D.)