glesing

Old English

Alternative forms

• glœ̄sing — Anglian
• glēsincg, glȳsing

Etymology

By surface analysis, glēsan (“to gloss”) +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡleː.sinɡ/, [ˈɡleː.ziŋɡ]

Noun

glēsing f

1. a glossing, explanation

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	glēsing	glēsinga, glēsinge
accusative	glēsinge	glēsinga, glēsinge
genitive	glēsinge	glēsinga
dative	glēsinge	glēsingum

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “glésing”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2024), “glēsing”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.