giemeleaslice
Appearance
Old English
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Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, ġīemelēas (“careless”) + -līċe
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ġīemelēaslīċe
- carelessly
- Homilies of Ælfric
- Sum ċild plegode ġȳmelēaslīċe, and bearn under ānum yrnendum hwēole, and wearð tō dēaðe tōcwȳsed.
- A child was playing carelessly and was crushed to death under a running wheel.
- Homilies of Ælfric
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gýmeleáslíce”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.