Líhtan

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - líhtan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

líhtan
to shine. Take here leóhtan in Dict. , and add: to be light :-- Þá sceán leóht inn, swylce níwe móna árise, swá ꝥ hit líhte under þǽre róde swýðran earme . . . hit líhte geond ealle þá cyrcan, Vis. Lfc. 51-56. On þǽre ylcan nihte þe se behátena dæg æfter líhte nocte eadem, qua promissus illucescebat dies, Gr. D. 148, 12.

Related words: frum-, ge-, ofer-líhtan. lihtan

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