Tilia

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - tilia

According to the Old English Dictionary:

tiliga, an;

tilia
m. A husbandman, cultivator of land:--Tilia colonus, Wrt. Voc. i. 74, 66. Bigenga, tilia, inbúend colonus, i. incola, cultor, inquilinus, it. 134, 25. Tilia colonus, habitalor, Hpt. Gl. 422, 60. Se merigenlica tilia the labourer who came in the morning. Homl. Th. ii. 74, 30. Ðá sende hé to ðam tiligum (tilium, MS. A. ad agricolas) his þeów . . . Ðá cwǽdon ða tilian (coloni) . . . Ðæs wíngeardes hláford fordéþ ða tiligean (tylian, MS. A. colonos), Mk. Skt. 12, 2, 7, 9. [Þe wise teolie prudens sator, O. E. Homl. i. 133, 10.]

Related words: eorþ-, irþ- (yrþ-) tilia. tilia

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