hancred

Old English

FWOTD – 15 July 2017

Alternative forms

hancrǣd

Etymology

From hana (“rooster”) + crēd

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɑnkreːd/

Noun

hancrēd m

(historical) The period of the early morning when roosters begin to crow; the wee hours of morning.

Usage notes

In Bede and others, this terms refers to a particular period of night following midniht (midnight) and before the first light of dawn.

Hypernyms

niht

References

"hancrēd" in Bosworth & Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1882), Oxford: Clarendon Press.
"Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy", p. 6, in Popular Treatises on Science Written during the Middle Ages (1841), London: Historical Society of Science.

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