Efen-micel

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - efen-micel

According to the Old English Dictionary:

efen-micel
Add: just as much. (1) adj.:--Hé bið geniéd mid ðǽm folgoðe ðæt hé sceal heálíce sprecan . . . him is efnmicel niéd ðæt hé suá doo suá suá hé lǽrð qui loci sui necessitate exigitur summa dicere, hac eadem necessitate compellitur summa monstrare, Past. 81, 7. Hwæðer se spiwða sý swá micel swá hé ǽr gedranc. Gif hé mára sy . . . gif hé emmicel sý þám þe hé ǽr gedranc, Lch. ii. 286, 24. (2) subst.:--Genim þysse wyrte seáw, and eles efenmycel, Lch. i. 312, 3. Gemeng wið huniges emmicel, 26, 11. Saluie, rúde be healfan þǽre saluian, fefer-fugian emmicel þára twégea wyrta, ii. 292, 17. [O. H. Ger. eban-michel aequalis: Icel. jafn-mikill.] in Dict. efen-micel

Related words: emn-, em-micel

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