Nyt[t]
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - nyt[t]
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- nyt[t]
- f. I. use, advantage, profit :-- Nyt commodum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 24, 63. Hundteóntig hí him sylfum tó nytte dydon centum in suos usus habebant, Bd. 4, 13; S. 583, 3 : Ors. 2, 4; Swt. 72, 6. Niþum tó nytte, Exon. Th. 409, 10; Rä. 27, 27. Nebb biþ hyre æt nytte it has a face for use, 416, 23; Rä. 35, 3. Tó nyttum ad pensas, Wrt. ii. 4, 40 : ad expensas, 7, 30 : ad penses, 99, 23. II. office, duty :-- Ðegn nytte beheóld, se ðe on handa bær hroden ealowǽge, Beo. Th. 993; B.494 : 6228; B. 3118. [Bruttes neoren noht to nuttes, Laym. 13428 : Icel. nyt; gen. nytjar; f. use, enjoyment : O. H. Ger. nuzzi.]