Hǽlig

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hǽlig

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hǽlig
adj. Slippery, easily moved, fickle, inconstant; levis :-- Ðam ungestæþþegan and ðam hǽlgan ðú miht secggan ðæt hé biþ winde gelícra oððe unstillum fugelum levis, atque inconstans studio permutat? nihil ab avibus differt, Bt. 37, 4; Fox 192, 23. [Cf. Icel. háll slippery : O. H. Ger. háli lubricus, caducus.] hælig
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