Nyt-líc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

nyt-líc

adj. Useful, profitable, beneficial :-- Ǽghwæðer (the male and female pennyroyal) ys nytlíc (MS. H. netlíc) . . . and hí on him habbaþ wundorlíce mihte, Lchdm. i. 204, 11. Móna se feórþæ wercu onginnan nytlíc ys the fourth day of the moon is advantageous for beginning works, iii. 184, 28. Mǽden (a girl born on the eighth day of the moon) is nytlíce, 188, 6. Is eallum mannum nytlíc, ðæt hié heora fulwihthádas wel gehealdan, Blickl. Homl. 109, 26. Ic ne gýmde ðara nytlícra geþeahta mínra freónda utilia consilia spreveram amicorum, Nar. 6, 26. Monig nytlíco þing multa utilia, Bd. 5, 20; S. 642, 19. [O. H. Ger. nuz-líh utilis.]

Related words: un-nytlíc. nyt-lic