Gēar

Gēar is hwyrftlic tīd þǣre eorðe tō ful gānne be þǣre sunnan. For wæccende on eorðe, þēos stend wiþ þā tīd þe is geþorften fram þǣre sunnan tō endienne ānne weg geond þone circulcræft andlang þǣm āsprungennesswege.

On tungolcræfte is þæt Iulianisce gēar is gemet tīman, tōmearcod tō 365.25um daga þāre ǣlc hafaþ 86,400 Geondrīciscre Endebyrdnesse ēagantīda .

Þǣr nis nān woruldwīde andfenge tācn þæs gēares tō gemete tīde. Sēo Geondrīcisce Endebyrdness Gemeta ne foreseteþ ān. Gemǣne sceortness gebrocen geondrīclīce is a (æfter þǣm Lǣdnan worde annus).

For þǣre eorðe eaxisce hleoninge, se weg gēares fēreþ þā fernesse þāra tīmena, gesundrode fram andwednungum in weðere, and on stundum dæges lēohtes, and þæs ēac on wyrtum and eorþwēlan. In medumwearmum and undereaxlendiscum stedum, oftost sind fēower tīman gecūðe: Lencten, Sumer, Hærfest and Winter, þe sind tungollīce gesundrod þā sēo sunne cymþ tō þǣm tīdum efennihte and sunnstedes, þēah þā medumweðerlice tīman latiaþ æfter heora tungollicum mearcum. In sumum wearmbeltiscum and underwearmbeltiscum stedum is hit gemǣnre tō sprecenne be þǣm regnigum (ēac "wǣt" gehāten) tīman wiþ þone drygan tīman.

Consulabēc gēar is nēahsagu þǣre eorðe hwirftlice tīde on sumre consulabēc. Consulabēc gēar in þǣre Gregorianiscan consulabēc (ēacswā on þǣre Iulianiscan consulabēc) hafaþ oþþe 365 (gemǣne gēar) oþþe 366 (bissextus) daga.

Þæt word "gēar" is ēac gebrocen tō tīdum þe sind nēahlīce gelīce ac ne ful gelīc ge þǣm tungolican gēare ge þǣm consulabēc gēare, swelce þæt tīmisce gēar, þæt feohhwyrftlice gēar oþþe þæt gyldisce gēar, and manig ōðru gēarcynd. Þurh reccinge cann þæt word gēar mǣnan þā hwyrftlican tīde ǣniges dweligendes: tō bȳsne, "Tīwlic gēar" is sēo tīd on þǣre Tīw dēþ his āgnan hwyrfte.