Wan-hygdig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Wan-hygdig

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: -hýdig; Related words:

Definitions

1 wan-hygdig

adj. Foolish, imprudent, thoughtless, careless, reckless :-- Wonhýdig wer vir insipiens, Ps. Th. 91, 5: Exon. Th. 95, 14; Cri. 1557 : 343, 25 ; Gn. Ex. 162. Ne sceal wita nó tó hátheort, ne tó hrædwyrde, ne tó wác wiga, ne tó wanhýdig, 290, 19. Ne mid swíðran his nele brýsan wanhýdig gemód Wealdend engla, ne ðone wlacan smocan wáces flǽsces wætere gedwæscan, Dóm. L. 50. Wonhýdige (the apostate angels), Elen. Kmbl. 1522 ; El. 763. [Cf. Icel. van-hugaðr ill-considered.] wan-hygdig

Runic Inscription

ᚹᚪᚾ-ᚻᚣᚷᛞᛁᚷ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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