leornungcniht

Noun

 * 1) a youth engaged in study: student, apprentice, disciple

Usage notes

 * Various words for “disciple” were used depending on dialect. King Alfred, writing in late 9th century Early West Saxon, preferred . The translator of Bede's , writing around the same time period but in partly West Saxonized Mercian, favored, a borrowing from 🇨🇬. Leornungcniht was the word used by the two most prolific authors of Old English, Ælfric and Wulfstan, who both wrote in Late West Saxon: Ælfric from about 989 to 1010, Wulfstan from about 996 to 1023.