Old English Dictionary Entry

Eglian

Part of speech: eglan, elan; hit egleþ, eleþ; Related words: trans. chiefly used impersonally with dat. of person. To trouble, pain, grieve

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p. ode, ade; pp, od, ad; AIL ; molestāre, dŏlēre :-- Ðæt he us eglan móste that he could trouble us, Judth. 11; Thw. 24, 12; Jud. 185. Me egleþ [eleþ, MS. H.] swýðe it grieves me much, L. Edm. S. procem;ILLEGIBLE Th. i. 246, 22. Him nǽfre syððan seó ádl ne eglode the illness never ailed him afterwards, Guthl. 12; Gdwin. 60, 8: 13; Gdwin. 60, 19. Ðæt him stranglíce eglade it afflicted him severely, Chr. 1086; Erl. 220, 33. Gif men innan wyrmas eglen [eglien MS. B.] if worms trouble a man within, Herb. 2, 10; Lchdm. i. 82, 22. [Piers P. Chauc. eylen, eilen to ail: Orm. eȝȝlenn: Plat, echeln, öcheln to be vexed, grieved at anything: Ger. ekeln: Goth. aglyan to molest, in us-aglyan.] DER, æt-eglan, ge-. eglian

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Runic Inscription

ᛖᚷᛚᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.: German
Goth.: Gothic
L.: Latin

Works & Authors

Chr.: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Erl.: Earle, J. (editor)
Orm.: Ormulum (ME text by Orm)
S.: Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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