Mæsse-úhta

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - mæsse-úhta

According to the Old English Dictionary:

mæsse-úhta
the hour of matins on a feast day, the matins themselves :-- Habbon þonne interuallum . . . bútan sunnanúhtan and mæsse-úhtan (festiutatibus sanctorum), þonne ne þearf nán interuallum beón, Chrd. 24, 7. Gé sculon singan sunnanúhtan and mæsseúhton, ǽfre nigon ræpsas mid nigon rǽdingum, Ll. Th. ii. 384, 4. Cf. Crístesmæsse-úhta, Chr. 1021; P. 154, 31. mæsse-uhta
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