Glig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Glig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: gligg, es; Related words: g'eó, gliw. glig-,glig

Definitions

1 glig

n. Glee, music, minstrelsy, jesting, sport; gaudium, musica, facetiæ, ludibrium :-- Mid ðæm glige [MS. Cot. ðam gligge] with the music, Past. 26, 2; Swt. 183, 25; Hat. MS. 35 b; 8. Hí hæfdon him to glige his hálwende mynegunge habebant inter se ludibrio salutarem ejus admonitionem, Basil. admn. 9; Norm. 54, 20.

Runic Inscription

ᚷᛚᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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