dægred
Old English
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editEtymology
editUsually explained as dæġ (“day”) + rēad (“red”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdæġrēd n
- dawn, the period of the early morning before sunrise when the sun's light begins to brighten the sky
Usage notes
editIn Bede & al., distinguished as the earlier part of the morning (matutinum or aurora) as opposed to diluculum, the period just before sunrise. Other times, it is inclusive of or (as in Ælfric) identified with diluculum instead.
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editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dægrēd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.