Hyge-gǽlsa

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hyge-gǽlsa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hyge-gǽlsa
adj. Slow, sluggish :-- Nis hé hinderweard ne hygegǽlsa swár ne swongor swá sume fuglas ða ðe late þurh lyft lácaþ fiþrum non tamen est tarda, ut volucres quæ corpore magno incessus pigros per grave pondus habent, Exon. 60 b; Th. 220, 3; Ph. 314,

Related words: gǽlan. hyge-gælsa

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