æfenglom

Old English

Etymology

ǣfen (“evening”) +‎ glōm (“gloom, gloaming”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.fenˌɡloːm/, [ˈæː.venˌɡloːm]

Noun

ǣfenglōm m

1. the evening gloom: twilight

Usage notes

In Bede & al., distinguished as the earlier part of the evening (crepusculum) as opposed to evening proper (ǣfen), during which the planets and stars became visible.

Hypernyms

• niht

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ǣfenglōm”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.