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 n
- intelligence; wisdom
- 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