æfenlæcan

== Old English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, ǣfen (“evening”) +‎ -lǣċan === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæː.fen.læː.t͡ʃɑn/, [ˈæː.ven.læː.t͡ʃɑn] === Verb === ǣfenlǣċan (impersonal) for evening to approach (glosses Latin advesperāscere) ==== Conjugation ==== === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ǽfen-lǽcan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.