Sylian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Sylian

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: be-sylian; solian, sulian, sol, syle. sylian

Definitions

1 sylian

p. ede To sully, soil, pollute, defile:--Hé on unscyldgum eorla blóde his sweord selede (cf. besyled, Bt. 16, 4; Fox 58. 18), Met. 9, 60. Sió sugu hí wille sylian on hire sole æfter ðæm ðe hió áðwægen biþ, Past. 54; Swt. 419, 27. [Þis sunne suleð þi sawle, H. M. 35, 15. Blind mon To þare diche his dweole fulieþ (follows) And falleþ and þar one sulieþ, O. and N. 1240. Mi sawle mit sunne isulet, Marh. 3, 14. Isuled, A. R. 396, 1. O. Sax. sulian: O. H. Ger. bi-sullen. Cf. O. Frs. sulenge soiling: Goth. bi-sauljan to defile.]

Runic Inscription

ᛋᚣᛚᛁᚪᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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