Mis-micel

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

mis-micel

to preserve the life of all that lives on earth Noah had an everlasting remnant (one from which an endless line of descendants would come)">or quantity(?)">adj. Wanting in greatness or quantity(?), few :-- On feorhgebeorh hæfde eallum eorþcynne éce láfe frumcneów gehwæs fæder and móder tuddorteóndra geteled ríme mismicelra (misselícra or missenlícra?) ðonne men cunnon to preserve the life of all that lives on earth Noah had an everlasting remnant (one from which an endless line of descendants would come), an original pair, father and mother, of every one of the offspring-producers, few in number, (fewer indeed) than men know, (or? of many kinds when reckoned up, more so than men know), Cd. 161; Th. 201, 16; Exod. 373. mis-micel