[lytel], adj., small, little: nom. sg. neut. tô lytel, [1749]; acc. sg. f. lytle hwîle (a little while), [2031], [2098]; lif-wraðe lytle (little protection for his life), [2878].—Comp. un-lytel.

[lyt-hwôn], adv., little = not at all: lyt-hwôn lôgon, [204].

[lýfe], st. n., leave, permission, (life?): instr. sg. þîne lýfe (life, MS.), [2132].—Leo. Cf. O.N. leyfi, n., leave, permission, in Möbius' Glossary, p. 266.

[lýfan], w. v., (fundamental meaning to believe, trust) in

â-lýfan, to allow, grant, entrust: pret. sg. næfre ic ænegum men ær âlýfde ... þryð-ärn Dena (never before to any man have I entrusted the palace of the Danes), [656]; pret. part. (þâ me wäs) sîð ... âlýfed inn under eorð-weall (the way in under the wall of earth was allowed me), [3090].

ge-[lýfan], w. v., to believe, trust: 1) w. dat.: inf. þær gelýfan sceal dryhtnes dôme se þe hine deáð nimeð (whomever death carrieth away, shall believe it to be the judgment of God, i.e. in the contest between Beówulf and Grendel), [440].—2) w. acc.: pret. sg. geóce gelýfde brego Beorht-Dena (believed in, expected, help, etc.), [609]; þät heó on ænigne eorl gelýfde fyrena frôfre (that she at last should expect from any earl comfort, help, out of these troubles), [628]; se þe him bealwa tô bôte gelýfde (who trusted in him as a help out of evils), [910]; him tô anwaldan âre gelýfde (relied for himself on the help of God), [1273].

â-[lýsan], w. v., to loose, liberate: pret. part. þâ wäs of þäm hrôran helm and byrne lungre â-lýsed (helm and corselet were straightway loosed from him), [1631].

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[maðelian], w. v. (sermocinari), to speak, talk: pret. sg. maðelode, [286], [348], [360], [371], [405], [456], [499], etc.; maðelade, [2426].

[maga], w. m., son, male descendant, young man: nom. sg. maga Healfdenes (Hrôðgâr), [189], [1475], [2144]; maga Ecgþeówes (Beówulf), [2588]: maga (Grendel), [979]; se maga geonga (Wîglâf), [2676]; Grendeles maga (a relative of Grendel), [2007]; acc. sg. þone magan, [944].