Neáh

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - neáh

According to the Old English Dictionary:

neáh
adj. Add :-- Neáhne proximum, Germ. 400, 524. Neágum proximis, 399, 409. I. add: (l) local :-- Sume synd stówlice, þá geswuteliað gehendnysse oððe ungehendnysse . . . proximus neéxð (neáhst néxt, nýxt, nýhst, ], Ælfc. Gr. Z. 14, 21. Þá gegaderode micel folc hit of þám niéhstum burgum, Chr. 921 ; P. 102, 4. (2) marking relation, position, or order :-- Cyninges þegenes (heregeata) þe him nýhste syndon, Ll. Th. i. 414, 9. II. add :-- Se Sunnandæg waes ealra daga se ǽresta, and hé bið eft se néxta l ættemesta, Wlfst. 210, I. Ǽr his néxtan dæge, Hml. Th. ii. 152, 8. Þá þá hé sceolde álǽtan þæt níhste orað and ágyfan his gást cum extremum spiritum ageret. Gr. D. 324, 15. v. un-neáh, ende-néhst, and the neáh- compounds. neah-,neah,-neah

Related words: ll.

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