Gīmeleás-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Gīmeleás-ness

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: e; Related words:

Definitions

1 gīmeleás-ness

f. Carelessness :-- Be speres gēmeleásnesse of care-lessness with a spear, Ll. Th. i. 84, II. Be dām forþgewitenum gēmeleásnissum (praeteriias neglegentias), þā þe hē on cildhāde ge-fremede, Bd. 3, 27; Sch. 320, I. Fore synnum and gēmeleásnisum (negligentiis) ūsum, Rtl. 178, II. Heora gīmeleásnesse neglegentias suas, R. Ben. I. 84, 12. gimeleas-ness

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛁᛗᛖᛚᛖᚪᛋ-ᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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