Limpan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - limpan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- limpan
- Add; I. to befall, happen :-- Hé hiene ofslóg, swá him eác selfum siþþan æfter lamp, Ors. 4, 5 ; S. 170, 10. II. to belong. pertain :-- Bútan ðém wioda ðe tó ðém sealtern limpð, Txts. 438, 25. Limpeð, 444, 16. Médu mid riahte tó ðém lande limpað, 439, 7. 438, 15. III. to pertain to, be concerned with, have relation to :-- Rǽdincga tó þæs hálgan árwyrþnesse limpende lectiones ad ipsius sancti uenerationem periinenies, Angl. xiii. 430, 936. IV. expressing a relation of equivalence where the same amount is expressed in different units :-- .xxx. ombra gódes uuelesces aloð, ðet limpeð tó . xV. to be suitable, be applicable :-- Gif [lí]þe wyrtdrenc ne limpe, sele strangne, Lch. ii. 264, 3. [v. N. E. D. limp.] v. mis-limpan. limpan