gelac

From ġe- +‎ lāc (“play”). Akin to lācan (“to wave, sway”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeˌlɑːk/

ġelāc n or f

1. motion, commotion, tumultuous assembly, play
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Forþon cnyssað nū heortan ġeþōhtas, þæt iċ hēan strēamas, sealtȳþa ġelāc sylf cunniġe; monað mōdes lust mǣla ġehwylċe ferð tō fēran, þæt iċ feor heonan elþēodiġra eard ġesēċe.

     Thus, thoughts are now striking heart so that I know high streams, the tossing of the salt waves myself; the mind’s wish of each times goads soul to fare so that I hence would seek a far land of overseas folks.

when neuter

Strong a-stem:

when feminine

Strong ō-stem:

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “ge-lác”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.