Underling

Old English Dictionary Entry

Underling

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: 218, 14. [Leir king scal beon eouwer lauerd ... & Aganippus ure king scal beon his underling, Laym. 3657. Inobedience, þet is ... underling þet ne buhð nout his prelat, A. R. 198, 18.] underling

Definitions

1 underling

m. (the word seems to occur only in late texts) An underling, a subordinate, a subject :-- Heó (the Jews) syððen ǽfre unwurðe wǽron on heora lífdagen and get synden underlinges, Homl. Ass. 194, 50. Eádward kyng grét Harald eurl and alle his undurlynges (omnes meos ministros) in Herefordeshíre, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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