Ah-lǽca

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ah-lǽca

According to the Old English Dictionary:

an;

ah-lǽca
m. [ah- = ag- = æg- = æc- nequitia; lǽc ludus, donum; -a the personal termination, q. v.] A miserable being, miscreant, monster ; miser, perditus, monstrum :-- He wiste ðæm ahlǽcan hilde geþinged he knew conflict was destined for the miscreant, Beo. Th. 1297; B. 646: 1983 ; B. 989.

Related words: ag-lǽca. ah-læca

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