Lamp-healt

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lamp-healt

According to the Old English Dictionary:

laempi-halt;

lamp-healt
adj. The word occurs in Wrt. Voc. ii. 51, 20, and in Ep. Gl. 13 f, 4 as the gloss of lurdus which Ducange explains as foul, cf. Ital. lordo, or stupid, cf. Fr. lourde, lourdand. Lye quotes without reference lempe lenitas; Icel. has lempiligr pliant, could the word mean 'unable to bend, stiff, awkward?' lamp-healt
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