andgit

Old English

Alternative forms

• andġiet

Etymology

First attested around 1000 AD in "King Alfred's Old English version of Boethius De consolatione philosophiae".

Noun

andġit

1. intelligence; wisdom
2. meaning; sense

Derived terms

• andġitfullice (“intelligently”)
• andġitol (“intelligent person”)

References

• Old English vocabulary
• Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader
• Approaches to the Old English Vocabulary for Mind by Soon-Ai Low