Ge-lǽte

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-lǽte

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-lǽte
Substitute: A place where roads meet, where one road opens into another. Cf. ge-lætan; II:--Biuium twégra wega gelǽte, triuium þreóra wega gelǽtu, competum fela gelǽtu, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 31, 5-7. In twéga wega gelǽte in bino (= biuio, Mk. 11, 4), Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 40: in biuio, 46, 47. Þæt wíf æt þǽra wega gelǽte (in bivio) sæt, Gen. 38, 21. Twégra wega gelǽtu biuium, þreóra triuium, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 288, 9. Þá belocenan wega gelǽta conpeta clausa, Wrt. Voc. ii. 19, 56. Competalia æt þám wega gelǽtum wǽran, Wrt. Voc. ii. 86, 28: 19, 2. Þá hǽðenan æt wega gelǽtum him lác offrodon, Wlfst. 107, 4. Gif wífman hire cild æt wega gelǽton (ad compita viarum) þurh þá eorðan tíhð, Ll. Th. ii. 210, 18: Hml. S. 17, 148. Gáð tó wega gelǽtum (geléta, L.) ite ad exitus viarum, Mt. 22, 9: Wrt. Voc. ii. 73, 13: 9, 2. Gilétum, Rtl. 107, 35. Æt woegena gelétum in biuio, Mk. L. R. 11, 4. Andlang strǽte oþ þǽra strǽta gelǽto, C. D. iii. 436, 22. [O. H. Ger. ge-láz commissura, conjunctura, exitus (viarum).]

Related words: þeóh-, weg-gelǽte. ge-læte

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