getellan

Meaning

1. to tell, number, count, enumerate, reckon, assign

   On ðām ġēare synd ġetēalde twelf mōnðas, twā ⁊ fīftiġ wucena, þreo hund daga ⁊ fif ⁊ syxtiġ daga, ⁊ þǣrtōēacan syx tīda, þā maciað æfre ymbe fēorðe ġēar þone dæġ ⁊ ðā niht þe wē hātað bissextum.

   Assigned to each year are twelve months, fifty-two weeks, three hundred and sixty-five days, and an additional six hours, for which reason there is a day and night about every fourth year that we call intercalary.

   c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year

2. to esteem, consider, estimate

   c. 994, Ælfric, The Seasons of the Year

   To us a day means from sunrise to sunset, but in books, one day is considered to last from when the sun rises to when it returns to where it started from. In that interval there are considered to be 24 hours.

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