Ge-hyld

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-hyld

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-hyld

n. Regard, observation, keeping, concealing; observantia, custodia :-- In gehylde rihtra Eástrana in the keeping of right Easter, Bd. 2, 4; S. 505, 25. Ic wæs on ðínum gehylde begangen in observationibus tuis exercebor, Ps. Th. 76, 10. [Him] hálige heápas on gehyld bebeád commended to his protection the holy bands, Cd. 161; Th. 202, 3; Ex. 382. Lǽdan on gehyld Godes to lead into God's protection, Andr. Kmbl. 2091; An. 1047 : 234; An. 117. Háligra gehyld the preservation of the holy ones, Exon. 55 b; Th. 196, 4; Az. 169. He is manna gehyld he is the protection of men, Beo. Th. 6104. On heofona gehyld into the protection [?] of the heavens, Exon. 15 b; Th. 34, 20; Cri. 545. Thorpe translates into heaven's vault, Grein has recessus, arcanum? Or could the word have the sense of space, cf. Ger. gehalt, gehaltig? Cf. also geheald subst. and adj. and gehild. ge-hyld

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ᚷᛖ-ᚻᚣᛚᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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