Ildu

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

ildu

Add: I. an age, one of the six ages of the world :-- Yldo evo (primo,) Wrt. Voc. ii. 94, 80. Þes middangeard nēde on dās eldo endian sceal þe nū andweard is; for þon fīfe þāra syndon āgangen on þisse eldo, Bl. H. 117, 35. II. age, time of life :-- Hāt bado ǣlcere yldo and hāde gescrǣpe (omni aetati et senui accommodos), Bd. l, 1; Sch. 9, II a. of a thing :-- On þǣra sex fīfa ǣlcon on þæs mōnan eldo, Lch. ii. 16, 3. III. old age :-- Hī (Adam and Eve) ne mihton forealdian, ne deáde beón . . . Ðā underdeóddon hī selfe . . . tō eldo and tō deáde, Shrn. 66, 20. III a. decay from old age. Cf. ildan; III :-- Yeldo grues (l. caries; the line glossed is: Quae quassat caries, et frangit fessa vetustas, Ald. 153, 28), Wrt. Voc. ii. 91, 22. Eldo cnues (l. caries, and cf. caries, putredo lignorum vel ferri sindor vel vetustas, 129, 10), 19, 35.

Parole correlate: cild-, for-, or-ildu. ildu