Tyhtend-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tyhtend-líc

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: tyhtan),

Definitions

1 tyhtend-líc

adj. That serves far exhortation, encouragement, etc. (hortative :-- Wé wyllaþ sume tihtendlíce sprǽce wið eów habban, Homl. Th. ii. 574, 20. Sume adverbia syndon ortativa, ðæt synd tihtendlíce, Ælfc. Gr. 38; Zup. 227, 16. Hé mid tihtendlícum wordum heora gewǽhtan mód getrymde and gefréfrode, Homl. i. 562, 1. tyhtend-lic

Runic Inscription

ᛏᚣᚻᛏᛖᚾᛞ-ᛚᛁᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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