Lytling

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lytling

According to the Old English Dictionary:

lytling
Add: I. a child :-- Lǽtað þá lytlingas sinite parvulos, Mt. 19, 14. Lytlungas, Ps. L. 1369. II. a person of little account, of inferior position. Cf. lytel; A. I. 7 b :-- Gif ǽgðer ge biscopas ge preóstas æfter heora rihtan gesettednesse lifdon, þonne wǽre hit oferflówennis ús litlingum (nobis exiguis) áwiht níwes tó trahtnienne, Chrd. 2, 4. lytling
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