Geól

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - geól

According to the Old English Dictionary:

giúl, iúl, geóhol, es;

GEÓL
n. YULE, Christmas; festum nativitatis Domini :-- On geól at Christmas, L. Alf. pol. 5; Th. i. 64, 23, note: Menol. Fox 59, note a. Ðý twelftan dæge ofer geóhol Epiphaniæ, Bd. 4, 19; S. 588, 8. Feówertig daga ǽr eástran and feówertig daga ǽr Cristes acennisse ðæt is ǽr geólum fourty days before Easter and fourty days before Christ's birth, that is, before Christmas, Shrn. 82, 11. [Dan. juul: Swed. jul, m: O. Nrs. jól, n. pl. festum jolense, festum natalitiorum Christi, festum quodvis, convivium.] For this and the next word

Related words: Grm. Gesch. D. S. c. vi, and Cl. and Vig. Icel. Dict. jól. geol

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