Gamen

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gamen

Add: (1) amusement, mirth :-- Hē sceal þonan geómor hweorfan, þām bid gomenes wana þe þā earfeda dreoged on sārgum sefan, Gū. 1328. Ðū dwollīce leofast swylce þē tō gamenes. Hml. A. 6, 141. Dyde ic mē tō gomene ganetes hleódor, Scef. 20. Hȳ sceolon habban him gomen on borde, Gn. Ex. 183. Hē ālegde gamen and gleódreám, B. 3021. (2) jest, game (in to make game of) :-- Ic sceal habban mē dæt tō gamene subsannabo, Past. 249, l. Þæt hī him tō gamene gedydon what they made a jest of, Hml. Th. ii. 254, 4. Þæt gē eów tō gamene feónda āfillad swā fela swā gē reccad. Wlfst. 132, 20. (3) a game, pastime :-- Sum bid swīdsnel, hafad searolic gomen (dancing and tumbling? cf. sealting), gleódǣda gife for gumþegnum, leóht and leodu-wāc, Crä. 82. Gamena angin ludorum gesticulatio, An. Ox. 2871. Sleglicum gamena gamene scenico ludorum joco, 2886. Man geswīce freólsdagum hǣdenra leóþa and deófles gamena, Ll. Th. ii. 248, 12. gamen