æfgælþ
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *abgaliþō, equivalent to æf- + gælþ from galan.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
æfgælþ f
Declension edit
Declension of æfgælþ (strong ō-stem)
Synonyms edit
- scīnlāc n (“sorcery, necromancy, superstition”)
See also edit
- æfgydel (“idolatrous, superstitious”)
- ġedwild n (“error, heresy”)
- ġedwimor n (“illusion, delusion, apparition”)
- ġedwolcræft m (“deceptive art, deception”)
- scīncræft m (“the art of making apparitions, magic”)
- scīnhīw n (“a form made by magic, a spectre”)
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “æfgælþ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.