Your Old English word of the day: ecghete
lysimache is the best person ever and bought me The Cambridge Old English Reader, which is a big ol' book that has forty texts/excerpts of texts of varying difficulty levels, with the tricky words glossed in the margins. I [heart] marginal glosses. I am particularly charmed by all the texts discussing Latin, because I am a dork. I know, I'm still working my way through Teach Yourself, but when I'm done with that (assuming I can ever learn the cases, which seems unlikely) I can move on to the reader. Beowulf was a bit too tricky, I think.
Speaking of Beowulf, I meant to post this months and months ago when I was still reading it, but I forgot. Anyway, it has the best OE word ever: ecghete. (It is on line 84 of Beowulf. No, I didn't get very far.)
("ecg" is pronounced "edge," and the rest of it is "het-eh." Stress on "edge.")
It means "hostility, war, violent hatred." But literally, it means sword-hate. Sword-hate.
For some reason this particular word has struck me as awesome; I like to declare, when I dislike things, that I have ecghete. And now I pass it on to you, O LiveJournal.
Currently I have ecghete with regard to the coffee table; it is a mess.
Speaking of Beowulf, I meant to post this months and months ago when I was still reading it, but I forgot. Anyway, it has the best OE word ever: ecghete. (It is on line 84 of Beowulf. No, I didn't get very far.)
("ecg" is pronounced "edge," and the rest of it is "het-eh." Stress on "edge.")
It means "hostility, war, violent hatred." But literally, it means sword-hate. Sword-hate.
For some reason this particular word has struck me as awesome; I like to declare, when I dislike things, that I have ecghete. And now I pass it on to you, O LiveJournal.
Currently I have ecghete with regard to the coffee table; it is a mess.