mē wīge belūc
wrāðum
fēondum (_protect me against mine enemies_), Ps.
Beowulf
, _life_: acc.
sg.
līf, 97, 734, 1537, 2424, 2744, 2752; dat.
sg. līfe, 2572; tō līfe (_in one's life, ever_) 2433; gen. sg. līfes, 197,
791, 807, 2824, 2846; worolde līfes (_of the earthly life_), 1388,
2344. --Comp. edwīt-līf.
līf-bysig, adj. _(striving for life or death), weary of life, in torment of
death_: nom. sg. , 967.
līf-dagas, st. m. pl. , _lifetime_: acc. -dagas, 794, 1623.
līf-frēa, w. m. , _lord of life, God_: nom. sg. , 16.
līf-gedāl, st. n. , _separation from life_: nom. sg. , 842.
līf-gesceaft, st. f. , _fate, destiny_: gen. pl. -gesceafta, 1954, 3065.
līf-wraðu, st. f. , _protection for one's life, safety_: acc. sg. līf-wraðe,
2878; dat. sg. tō līf-wraðe, 972.
līf-wyn, st. f. , _pleasure, enjoyment, joy_ (of life): gen. pl. līf-wynna,
2098.
līg, st. m. n. , _flame, fire_: nom. sg. , 1123; dat. instr. sg. līge, 728,
2306, 2322, 2342; gen. sg. līges, 83, 782. See lēg.
līg-draca, w. m. , _ fire-drake, flaming dragon_; nom. pl. , 2334. See
lēg-draca.
līg-egesa, w. m. , _horror arising through fire, flaming terror_: acc. sg. ,
2781.
līge-torn, st. m. , _false, pretended insult_ or _injury, fierce anger_(? ):
dat. sg. æfter līge-torne (_on account of a pretended insult? _ or _fierce
anger? _ cf. Bugge in Zacher's Zeits. 4, 208), 1944.
līg-ȳð, st. m. , _wave of fire_: instr. pl. līg-ȳðum, 2673.
lēon, st. v. , _to lend_: pret. sg. þæt him on þearfe lāh þyle Hrōðgāres
(_which H. 's spokesman lent him in need_), 1457.
on-lēoon, _to lend, grant as a loan_, with gen. of thing and dat. pers. :
pret. sg. þā hē þæs wǣpnes on-lāh sēlran sweord-frecan, 1468.
loca, w. m. , _bolt, lock_: in comp. bān-, burh-loca.
locen. See lūcan.
lond, long. See land, lang.
lof, st. m. n. , _praise, repute_: acc. sg. lof, 1537.
lof-dǣd, st. f. , _deed of praise_: instr. pl. lof-dǣdum, 24.
lof-georn, adj. , _eager for praise, ambitious_: superl. nom. sg.
lof-geornost, 3184.
loga, w. m. , _liar_; in comp. trēow-loga.
losian, w. v. , _to escape, flee_: pres. sg. III. losað, 1393, 2063; pret.
sg. hē on weg losade (_fled away_), 2097.
lōcian, w. v. , _to see, look at_: pres. sg. II. sǣ-lāc . . . þē þū hēr tō
lōcast (_booty of the sea that thou lookest on_), 1655.
ge-lōme, adv. , _often, frequently_, 559.
lufe, w. f. , _love_: in comp. hēah-, mōd-, wīf-lufe.
lufa (cf. and-leofa, big-leofa, _nourishment_), w. m. , _food, subsistence;
property, real estate_: acc. sg. on lufan (_on possessions_), 1729. --Comp.
eard-lufa.
lufen, st. f. (cf. lufa), _subsistence, food; real estate, (enjoyment? )_:
nom. sg. lufen (parallel with ēðel-wyn), 2887.
luf-tācen, st. n. , _love-token_: acc. pl. luf-tācen, 1864.
lufian, w. v. , _to love, serve affectionately_: pret. sg. III. lufode þā
lēode (_was on affectionate terms with the people_), 1983.
lungre, adv. : 1) _hastily, quickly, forthwith_, 930, 1631, 2311, 2744. --2)
_quite, very, fully_: fēower mēaras lungre gelīce (_four horses quite
alike_), 2165.
lust, st. m. , _pleasure, joy_: dat. pl. adv. lustum (_joyfully_), 1654; so,
on lust, 619, cf. 600.
lūcan, st. v. , _to twist, wind, lock, interweave_: pret. part. acc. sg. and
pl. locene leoðo-syrcan (_shirt of mail wrought of meshes or rings
interlocked_), 1506, 1891; gen. pl. locenra bēaga (_rings wrought of gold
wire_), 2996.
be-lūcan: 1) _to shut, close in or around_: pret. sg. winter ȳðe be-lēac
īs-gebinde (_winter locked the waves with icy bond_), 1133. -- 2) _to shut
in, off, preserve, protect_: pret. sg. I. hig wīge belēac manegum mǣgða (_I
shut them in, protected them, from war arising from many a tribe_), 1771.
Cf.
mē wīge belūc wrāðum fēondum (_protect me against mine enemies_), Ps.
34, 3.
ge-lūcan, _to unite, link together, make_: pret. part. gelocen, 2770.
on-lūcan, _to unlock, open_: pret. sg. word-hord on-lēac (_opened the
word-hoard, treasure of speech_), 259.
tō-lucan, _(to twist, wrench, in two) to destroy_: inf. , 782.
lyft, st. f. (m. n. ? ), _air_: nom. sg. , 1376; dat. sg. æfter lyfte (_along,
through, the air_), 2833.
lyft-floga, w. m. , _air-flier_: nom. sg. (of the dragon), 2316.
lyft-geswenced, pret. part. , _urged, hastened on, by the wind_, 1914.
lyft-wyn, st. f. , _enjoyment of the air_: acc. sg. lyft-wynne, 3044.
lyhð. See leahan.
lystan, w. v. , _to lust after, long for_: pret. sg. Gēat ungemetes wēl . . .
restan lyste(_the Gēat_ [Bēowulf] _longed sorely to rest_), 1794.
lȳt, adj. neut. (= parum), _little, very little, few_: lȳt eft becwōm . . .
hāmes nīosan (_few escaped homeward_), 2366; lȳt ǣnig (_none at all_),
3130; usually with gen. : wintra lȳt, 1928; lȳt . . . hēafod-māga, 2151;
wergendra tō lȳt (_too few defenders_), 2883; lȳt swīgode nīwra spella
(_he kept to himself little, none at all, of the new tidings_), 2898; dat.
sg. lȳt manna (_too few of men_), 2837.
lȳtel, adj. , _small, little_: nom. sg. neut. tō lȳtel, 1749; acc. sg. f.
lȳtle hwīle (_a little while_), 2031, 2098; lif-wraðe lȳtle (_little
protection for his life_), 2878. --Comp. un-lȳtel.
lȳt-hwōn, adv. , _little = not at all_: lȳt-hwōn lōgon, 204.
lȳfe, st. n. , _leave, permission, (life? )_: instr. sg. þīne lȳfe (life,
MS. ), 2132. --Leo. Cf. O. N. leyfi, n. , _leave, permission_, in Möbius'
Glossary, p. 266.
lȳfan, w. v. , (fundamental meaning _to believe, trust_) in
ā-lȳfan, _to allow, grant, entrust_: pret. sg. nǣfre ic ǣnegum men ǣr
ālȳfde . . . þrȳð-ærn Dena (_never before to any man have I entrusted the
palace of the Danes_), 656; pret. part. (þā mē wæs) sīð . . . ālȳfed inn
under eorð-weall (_the way in under the wall of earth was allowed me_),
3090.
ge-lȳfan, w. v. , _to believe, trust_: 1) w. dat. : inf. þǣr gelȳfan sceal
dryhtnes dōme sē þe hine dēað nimeð (_whomever death carrieth away, shall
believe it to be the judgment of God_, i. e. in the contest between Bēowulf
and Grendel), 440. --2) w. acc. : pret. sg. gēoce gelȳfde brego Beorht-Dena
(_believed in, expected, help_, etc. ), 609; þæt hēo on ǣnigne eorl gelȳfde
fyrena frōfre (_that she at last should expect from any earl comfort, help,
out of these troubles_), 628; sē þe him bealwa tō bōte gelȳfde (_who
trusted in him as a help out of evils_), 910; him tō anwaldan āre gelȳfde
(_relied for himself on the help of God_), 1273.
ā-lȳsan, w. v. , _to loose, liberate_: pret. part. þā wæs of þǣm hrōran
helm and byrne lungre ā-lȳsed (_helm and corselet were straightway loosed
from him_), 1631.
M
maðelian, w. v. (sermocinari), _to speak, talk_: pret. sg. maðelode, 286,
348, 360, 371, 405, 456, 499, etc. ; maðelade, 2426.
maga, w. m. , _son, male descendant, young man_: nom. sg. maga Healfdenes
(Hrōðgār), 189, 1475, 2144; maga Ecgþēowes (Bēowulf), 2588: maga (Grendel),
979; se maga geonga (Wīglāf), 2676; Grendeles maga (_a relative of
Grendel_), 2007; acc. sg. þone magan, 944.
magan, v. with pret. -pres. form, _to be able_: pres. sg. I. III. mæg, 277,
478, 931, 943, 1485, 1734, etc. ; II. meaht þū, 2048; subj. pres. mǣge,
2531, 2750; þēah ic eal mǣge (_even though I could_), 681; subj. pl. wē
mǣgen, 2655; pret. sg. meahte, 542, 755, 1131, 1660, 2465, etc. ; mihte,
190, 207, 462, 511, 571, 657, 1509, 2092, 2610; mehte, 1083, 1497, 1516,
1878; pl. meahton, 649, 942, 1455, 1912, 2374, 3080; mihton, 308, 313,
2684, 3164; subj. pret. sg. meahte, 243, 763, 2521; pres. sg. mæg,
sometimes = licet, _may, can, will_ (fut. ), 1366, 1701, 1838, 2865.
mago (Goth. magu-s), st. m. , _male, son_: nom. sg. mago Ecglāfes (Hunferð),
1466; mago Healfdenes (Hrōðgār), 1868, 2012.
mago-dryht, st. f. , _troop of young men, band of men_: nom. sg. mago-driht,
67.
mago-rinc, st. m. , _hero, man_ (preeminently): gen. pl. mago-rinca, hēap,
731.
magu-þegn, mago-þegn, st. m. , _vassal, war-thane_: nom. sg. 408, 2758; dat.
sg. magu-þegne, 2080; acc. pl. magu-þegnas, 293; dat. pl. mago-þegnum,
1481; gen. pl. mago-þegna . . . þone sēlestan (_the best of vassals_), 1406.
man, mon, st. m. : 1) _man, human being_: nom. sg. man, 25, 503, 534, 1049,
1354, 1399, 1535, 1877, etc. ; mon, 209, 510, 1561, 1646, 2282, etc. ; acc.
sg. w. mannan, 297, 577, 1944, 2128, 2775; wīd-cūðne man, 1490; dat. sg.
men, 656, 753, 1880; menn, 2190; gen. sg. mannes, 1195 (? ), 2081, 2534,
2542; monnes, 1730; nom. pl. men, 50, 162, 233, 1635, 3167; acc. pl. men,
69, 337, 1583, 1718; dat.
sg. līfe, 2572; tō līfe (_in one's life, ever_) 2433; gen. sg. līfes, 197,
791, 807, 2824, 2846; worolde līfes (_of the earthly life_), 1388,
2344. --Comp. edwīt-līf.
līf-bysig, adj. _(striving for life or death), weary of life, in torment of
death_: nom. sg. , 967.
līf-dagas, st. m. pl. , _lifetime_: acc. -dagas, 794, 1623.
līf-frēa, w. m. , _lord of life, God_: nom. sg. , 16.
līf-gedāl, st. n. , _separation from life_: nom. sg. , 842.
līf-gesceaft, st. f. , _fate, destiny_: gen. pl. -gesceafta, 1954, 3065.
līf-wraðu, st. f. , _protection for one's life, safety_: acc. sg. līf-wraðe,
2878; dat. sg. tō līf-wraðe, 972.
līf-wyn, st. f. , _pleasure, enjoyment, joy_ (of life): gen. pl. līf-wynna,
2098.
līg, st. m. n. , _flame, fire_: nom. sg. , 1123; dat. instr. sg. līge, 728,
2306, 2322, 2342; gen. sg. līges, 83, 782. See lēg.
līg-draca, w. m. , _ fire-drake, flaming dragon_; nom. pl. , 2334. See
lēg-draca.
līg-egesa, w. m. , _horror arising through fire, flaming terror_: acc. sg. ,
2781.
līge-torn, st. m. , _false, pretended insult_ or _injury, fierce anger_(? ):
dat. sg. æfter līge-torne (_on account of a pretended insult? _ or _fierce
anger? _ cf. Bugge in Zacher's Zeits. 4, 208), 1944.
līg-ȳð, st. m. , _wave of fire_: instr. pl. līg-ȳðum, 2673.
lēon, st. v. , _to lend_: pret. sg. þæt him on þearfe lāh þyle Hrōðgāres
(_which H. 's spokesman lent him in need_), 1457.
on-lēoon, _to lend, grant as a loan_, with gen. of thing and dat. pers. :
pret. sg. þā hē þæs wǣpnes on-lāh sēlran sweord-frecan, 1468.
loca, w. m. , _bolt, lock_: in comp. bān-, burh-loca.
locen. See lūcan.
lond, long. See land, lang.
lof, st. m. n. , _praise, repute_: acc. sg. lof, 1537.
lof-dǣd, st. f. , _deed of praise_: instr. pl. lof-dǣdum, 24.
lof-georn, adj. , _eager for praise, ambitious_: superl. nom. sg.
lof-geornost, 3184.
loga, w. m. , _liar_; in comp. trēow-loga.
losian, w. v. , _to escape, flee_: pres. sg. III. losað, 1393, 2063; pret.
sg. hē on weg losade (_fled away_), 2097.
lōcian, w. v. , _to see, look at_: pres. sg. II. sǣ-lāc . . . þē þū hēr tō
lōcast (_booty of the sea that thou lookest on_), 1655.
ge-lōme, adv. , _often, frequently_, 559.
lufe, w. f. , _love_: in comp. hēah-, mōd-, wīf-lufe.
lufa (cf. and-leofa, big-leofa, _nourishment_), w. m. , _food, subsistence;
property, real estate_: acc. sg. on lufan (_on possessions_), 1729. --Comp.
eard-lufa.
lufen, st. f. (cf. lufa), _subsistence, food; real estate, (enjoyment? )_:
nom. sg. lufen (parallel with ēðel-wyn), 2887.
luf-tācen, st. n. , _love-token_: acc. pl. luf-tācen, 1864.
lufian, w. v. , _to love, serve affectionately_: pret. sg. III. lufode þā
lēode (_was on affectionate terms with the people_), 1983.
lungre, adv. : 1) _hastily, quickly, forthwith_, 930, 1631, 2311, 2744. --2)
_quite, very, fully_: fēower mēaras lungre gelīce (_four horses quite
alike_), 2165.
lust, st. m. , _pleasure, joy_: dat. pl. adv. lustum (_joyfully_), 1654; so,
on lust, 619, cf. 600.
lūcan, st. v. , _to twist, wind, lock, interweave_: pret. part. acc. sg. and
pl. locene leoðo-syrcan (_shirt of mail wrought of meshes or rings
interlocked_), 1506, 1891; gen. pl. locenra bēaga (_rings wrought of gold
wire_), 2996.
be-lūcan: 1) _to shut, close in or around_: pret. sg. winter ȳðe be-lēac
īs-gebinde (_winter locked the waves with icy bond_), 1133. -- 2) _to shut
in, off, preserve, protect_: pret. sg. I. hig wīge belēac manegum mǣgða (_I
shut them in, protected them, from war arising from many a tribe_), 1771.
Cf.
mē wīge belūc wrāðum fēondum (_protect me against mine enemies_), Ps.
34, 3.
ge-lūcan, _to unite, link together, make_: pret. part. gelocen, 2770.
on-lūcan, _to unlock, open_: pret. sg. word-hord on-lēac (_opened the
word-hoard, treasure of speech_), 259.
tō-lucan, _(to twist, wrench, in two) to destroy_: inf. , 782.
lyft, st. f. (m. n. ? ), _air_: nom. sg. , 1376; dat. sg. æfter lyfte (_along,
through, the air_), 2833.
lyft-floga, w. m. , _air-flier_: nom. sg. (of the dragon), 2316.
lyft-geswenced, pret. part. , _urged, hastened on, by the wind_, 1914.
lyft-wyn, st. f. , _enjoyment of the air_: acc. sg. lyft-wynne, 3044.
lyhð. See leahan.
lystan, w. v. , _to lust after, long for_: pret. sg. Gēat ungemetes wēl . . .
restan lyste(_the Gēat_ [Bēowulf] _longed sorely to rest_), 1794.
lȳt, adj. neut. (= parum), _little, very little, few_: lȳt eft becwōm . . .
hāmes nīosan (_few escaped homeward_), 2366; lȳt ǣnig (_none at all_),
3130; usually with gen. : wintra lȳt, 1928; lȳt . . . hēafod-māga, 2151;
wergendra tō lȳt (_too few defenders_), 2883; lȳt swīgode nīwra spella
(_he kept to himself little, none at all, of the new tidings_), 2898; dat.
sg. lȳt manna (_too few of men_), 2837.
lȳtel, adj. , _small, little_: nom. sg. neut. tō lȳtel, 1749; acc. sg. f.
lȳtle hwīle (_a little while_), 2031, 2098; lif-wraðe lȳtle (_little
protection for his life_), 2878. --Comp. un-lȳtel.
lȳt-hwōn, adv. , _little = not at all_: lȳt-hwōn lōgon, 204.
lȳfe, st. n. , _leave, permission, (life? )_: instr. sg. þīne lȳfe (life,
MS. ), 2132. --Leo. Cf. O. N. leyfi, n. , _leave, permission_, in Möbius'
Glossary, p. 266.
lȳfan, w. v. , (fundamental meaning _to believe, trust_) in
ā-lȳfan, _to allow, grant, entrust_: pret. sg. nǣfre ic ǣnegum men ǣr
ālȳfde . . . þrȳð-ærn Dena (_never before to any man have I entrusted the
palace of the Danes_), 656; pret. part. (þā mē wæs) sīð . . . ālȳfed inn
under eorð-weall (_the way in under the wall of earth was allowed me_),
3090.
ge-lȳfan, w. v. , _to believe, trust_: 1) w. dat. : inf. þǣr gelȳfan sceal
dryhtnes dōme sē þe hine dēað nimeð (_whomever death carrieth away, shall
believe it to be the judgment of God_, i. e. in the contest between Bēowulf
and Grendel), 440. --2) w. acc. : pret. sg. gēoce gelȳfde brego Beorht-Dena
(_believed in, expected, help_, etc. ), 609; þæt hēo on ǣnigne eorl gelȳfde
fyrena frōfre (_that she at last should expect from any earl comfort, help,
out of these troubles_), 628; sē þe him bealwa tō bōte gelȳfde (_who
trusted in him as a help out of evils_), 910; him tō anwaldan āre gelȳfde
(_relied for himself on the help of God_), 1273.
ā-lȳsan, w. v. , _to loose, liberate_: pret. part. þā wæs of þǣm hrōran
helm and byrne lungre ā-lȳsed (_helm and corselet were straightway loosed
from him_), 1631.
M
maðelian, w. v. (sermocinari), _to speak, talk_: pret. sg. maðelode, 286,
348, 360, 371, 405, 456, 499, etc. ; maðelade, 2426.
maga, w. m. , _son, male descendant, young man_: nom. sg. maga Healfdenes
(Hrōðgār), 189, 1475, 2144; maga Ecgþēowes (Bēowulf), 2588: maga (Grendel),
979; se maga geonga (Wīglāf), 2676; Grendeles maga (_a relative of
Grendel_), 2007; acc. sg. þone magan, 944.
magan, v. with pret. -pres. form, _to be able_: pres. sg. I. III. mæg, 277,
478, 931, 943, 1485, 1734, etc. ; II. meaht þū, 2048; subj. pres. mǣge,
2531, 2750; þēah ic eal mǣge (_even though I could_), 681; subj. pl. wē
mǣgen, 2655; pret. sg. meahte, 542, 755, 1131, 1660, 2465, etc. ; mihte,
190, 207, 462, 511, 571, 657, 1509, 2092, 2610; mehte, 1083, 1497, 1516,
1878; pl. meahton, 649, 942, 1455, 1912, 2374, 3080; mihton, 308, 313,
2684, 3164; subj. pret. sg. meahte, 243, 763, 2521; pres. sg. mæg,
sometimes = licet, _may, can, will_ (fut. ), 1366, 1701, 1838, 2865.
mago (Goth. magu-s), st. m. , _male, son_: nom. sg. mago Ecglāfes (Hunferð),
1466; mago Healfdenes (Hrōðgār), 1868, 2012.
mago-dryht, st. f. , _troop of young men, band of men_: nom. sg. mago-driht,
67.
mago-rinc, st. m. , _hero, man_ (preeminently): gen. pl. mago-rinca, hēap,
731.
magu-þegn, mago-þegn, st. m. , _vassal, war-thane_: nom. sg. 408, 2758; dat.
sg. magu-þegne, 2080; acc. pl. magu-þegnas, 293; dat. pl. mago-þegnum,
1481; gen. pl. mago-þegna . . . þone sēlestan (_the best of vassals_), 1406.
man, mon, st. m. : 1) _man, human being_: nom. sg. man, 25, 503, 534, 1049,
1354, 1399, 1535, 1877, etc. ; mon, 209, 510, 1561, 1646, 2282, etc. ; acc.
sg. w. mannan, 297, 577, 1944, 2128, 2775; wīd-cūðne man, 1490; dat. sg.
men, 656, 753, 1880; menn, 2190; gen. sg. mannes, 1195 (? ), 2081, 2534,
2542; monnes, 1730; nom. pl. men, 50, 162, 233, 1635, 3167; acc. pl. men,
69, 337, 1583, 1718; dat.
