Un-gedyrstig

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - un-gedyrstig

According to the Old English Dictionary:

un-gedyrstig
adj. Faint-hearted, diffident :-- Ða unmódigan and ða ungedyrstigan wénaþ ðæt ðæt suíðe forsewenlíc sié ðætte hié dóð and forðon weorðaþ oft ormóde pusillanimes vehementer despecta putant esse, quae faciunt, et ideirco in desperatione franguntur, Past. 32; Swt. 209, 10. un-gedyrstig
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