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prettygoodworduhtceare (OOT-key-are-a) - n., lying awake with anxiety before dawn.
This isn't really a fair word to run, as it isn't English -- it's Old English. So not only not the right language, but rare to boot, being a hapax legomenon, or word used only once in a surviving corpus (which could be either a single text, an author's works, or entire language, depending on context -- here it's the language). But it shows up in lists of old, forgotten words that are fun to know. The word is a compound of ūhta, the time of night before dawn + caru, care/worry/anxiety, and the single known instance is from "The Wife's Lament": hæfde iċ ūhtċeare hwǣr mīn lēodfruma landes wǣre (I had pre-dawn anxiety, wondering where in the world my prince might be).
---L.
This isn't really a fair word to run, as it isn't English -- it's Old English. So not only not the right language, but rare to boot, being a hapax legomenon, or word used only once in a surviving corpus (which could be either a single text, an author's works, or entire language, depending on context -- here it's the language). But it shows up in lists of old, forgotten words that are fun to know. The word is a compound of ūhta, the time of night before dawn + caru, care/worry/anxiety, and the single known instance is from "The Wife's Lament": hæfde iċ ūhtċeare hwǣr mīn lēodfruma landes wǣre (I had pre-dawn anxiety, wondering where in the world my prince might be).
---L.
