Lamp-healt

Old English Dictionary Entry

Lamp-healt

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: laempi-halt; Related words:

Definitions

1 lamp-healt

adj. The word occurs in Wrt. Voc. ii. 51, 20, and in Ep. Gl. 13 f, 4 as the gloss of lurdus which Ducange explains as foul, cf. Ital. lordo, or stupid, cf. Fr. lourde, lourdand. Lye quotes without reference lempe lenitas; Icel. has lempiligr pliant, could the word mean 'unable to bend, stiff, awkward?' lamp-healt

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ᛚᚪᛗᛈ-ᚻᛠᛚᛏ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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