Ge-licgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-licgan

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -licgean; Related words:

Definitions

1 ge-licgan

p. -læg, pl. -lǽgon; pp. -legen. I. to lie, lie near, together; jacere, adjacere, conjacere :-- Mægen-stán him on middan geligeþ a huge stone lies in the middle of it, Bt. Met. Fox 5, 32; Met. 5, 16. Stedewangas strǽte gelicgaþ fixed plains lie near the road, Andr. Kmbl. 668; An. 334. On ðæm gelæg in quo jacebat, Lk. Skt. Lind. 5, 25. Ðá heó ðǽr on gelegen wæs when she had lain down there, Ors. 5, 13; Bos. 113, 23. II. to lie down, fail, cease, loiter, delay; deficere, cessare :-- Windblond gelæg the wind-storm ceased, Bon. Th. 6284; B. 3146. Ne mihte se níþ betwux him twám gelicgean the strife between the two could not be appeased, Ors. 3, 11; Bos. 75. 36. ge-licgan

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛚᛁᚳᚷᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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