Sceadu

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

sceadu

gen. sceaduwe, sceadwe, sceade; f. Shadow, shade :-- Sceadu umbra, Wrt. Voc. i. 77, 8. I. a shadow (cast by an object) :-- Seó sceadu byþ tó underne seofon and twentigoþan healfes fótes the shadow (of the dial-gnomon) will be twenty-six and a half foot long at nine o'clock (on Christmas day), Lchdm. iii. 218, 4 (and often on this and following pages). Nis ðeós woruldlíce niht nán þing búton ðære eorþan sceadu betweox ðære sunnan and mankynne . . . Seó sceadu ástíhþ up óþ ðæt heó becymþ tó ðære lyfte ufeweardan, and ðonne beyrnþ se móna hwíltídum, ðonne hé full byþ, on ðære sceade ufeweardre and fággeteþ oððe mid ealle ásweartaþ, 240, 18-24. On India lande wendaþ heora scada (sceada, MSS. R. P.) on sumera súðweard and on wintra norðweard. Eft on Alexandria on dam sumerlícan sunn- sceadu