Lyt-hwón

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

lyt-hwón

Add: I. as substantive :-- Monigo sint geceigdo, lythwón gecoren multi sunt vocati, pauci electi, Mt. L. 20, 16. Lythuó gecoreno, 22, 14. I a. with gen. :-- Lythwón becwóm Húna herges hám eft þanon, El. 142. Lythwón monna geflit paucorum homimum contentio, Mt. p. 2, 10. II. as adprogressus pusillum, Mt 26, 39.Onwende hé his neb áweg lythwón, Lch. ii. 284, 16, (2) of time :-- Lytle huíle (modicum) geséne wére hine cuæð and eftsóna lythuón (modicum) ne uére geséne, Jn. p. 7, 14: Gú. 363. (3) of extent, degree :-- Hé lithwón hogode embe his sáwle þearfe, Hml. S. 26, 243 : 28, 139. Se scamfæsta hæfð genóh on ðǽm tó his bettrunge ðæt his láreów hine suíðe lythwón gemyndgige his unðeáwa verecundis ad conversionem sufficit, quod eis doctor mala sua saltem leniter ad memoriam reducit, Past. 207, 4. (3 a) where the word is equivalent to an emphatic negative :-- Þone síðfæt him snotere ceorlas lythwón lógon . . . hwetton higerófne (far from blaming him, they urged him on), B. 203. (4) gradually, little by little :-- Lythuón onginnes from fruma, æfter ðon ðý æfterra . . . paulatim incipiens a primo, deinde secundo . . . , Mt. p. 11, 11. lyt-hwon

Mots connexes: (1) of distance :-- Þ á hé wæs lythwón þanon ágán