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lytling

  • noun [ masculine ]
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lytling, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§339; §607;
A little one, a young person, child
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  • Se ðe underféhþ ǽnne lytling on mínum naman

    he that receives one little one in my name,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 286, 30.
  • Lyttlingas,

    • i. 512, 21.
  • Furþon litlincgas nellaþ forbígean mé

    nec parvuli nolunt præterire me [the baker],

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 29, 1.
  • Ða litlingas fuhton on hire innoþe,

    • Gen. 25, 22.
  • Ǽnne of ðyssum lytlingum

    unum de pusillis istis,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 18, 6: Homl. Th. i. 84, 11.
  • His efenealdan lytlingas [

    the children killed in Bethlehem

    ],
    • 88, 12.
  • Ic hæbbe hnesce litlingas

    parvulos habeam teneros,

    • Gen. 34, 13: 50, 21.
  • Gif hwylc gódra wile his lytlingas hiom [priests ] tó láre befæstan, hig sceolon swíðe lustlíce hig onfón, and him tǽcan,

    • L. E. I. 20
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 414, 8.
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  • lytling, n.