Old English

Noun

tungolcræft m ‎(nominative plural tungolcræftas)

1. starcraft, astronomy, astrology
   • 10th century, Ælfric of Eynsham, prepared and translated by Benjamin Thorpe in The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church (1844), Part XL:

     Wē rǣdaþ on tungelcræfte, ðæt sēo sunne biþ hwīltīdum þurh ðæs mōnelōcan trendles underscyte āðȳstrod […]

     We read in astronomy, that the sun is sometimes darkened by the intervention of the lunar orb […]

Declension

Related terms

• tungol ‎(“planet”)
• cræft ‎(“craft, skill”)
• tungolæ ‎(“astronomy”)
• tungolcræftwīse ‎(“astronomy”)
• tungolgescead ‎(“astrology”)
• steorglēaw ‎(“star-wise”)

Descendants

• Middle English: tungolcraft

References

• 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", tungolcræft.
• Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.). Tungol-cræft. Retrieved September 11, 2011, from http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/031145