Participles
| Present | onlūcende |
| Past | onlocen |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | onlūce |
| 2nd sing. | onlȳcst |
| 3rd sing. | onlȳcþ |
| 1st plur. | onlūcaþ |
| 2nd plur. | onlūcaþ |
| 3rd plur. | onlūcaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | onlēac |
| 2nd sing. | onluce |
| 3rd sing. | onlēac |
| 1st plur. | onlucon |
| 2nd plur. | onlucon |
| 3rd plur. | onlucon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | onlūce |
| 2nd sing. | onlūce |
| 3rd sing. | onlūce |
| 1st plur. | onlūcen |
| 2nd plur. | onlūcen |
| 3rd plur. | onlūcen |
Past
| 1st sing. | onluce |
| 2nd sing. | onluce |
| 3rd sing. | onluce |
| 1st plur. | onlucen |
| 2nd plur. | onlucen |
| 3rd plur. | onlucen |
Imperative
| Singular | onlūc |
| Plural | onlūcaþ |
Verbs similar to 'onlucan'
unlucan,
ænlæcan,
anlæcan,
belucan,
lucan,
onbugan,
onlædan,
onlysan,
onmunan,
onsacan,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *andalūkan. Equivalent to on- + lūcan.
Sample Sentences
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c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
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Stæfcræft is sēo cǣġ þe þāra bōca andġiet onlȳcþ. (Grammar is the key that unlocks the meaning of books.)
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late 9th century, Old English Martyrology
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Sēo Cristes rōd on þǣre hē wæs āhangen is on þǣre byrġ Cōnstantīnopolī on ċirican on triewenre ċiste belocen, and þonne sēo ċist biþ onlocen, þonne cymþ þǣr upp wundorliċ stenċ, and sē biþ swā wynsum swā þǣr sīen ealle blōstman ġesamnode. (The cross where Jesus was crucified is locked in a wooden chest in the city of Constantinople, and when the chest is opened, an incredible smell comes out, as if someone brought all the flowers in the world together in one place.)
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late 10th century, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
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Þā cōmon on sumne sǣl unġesǣliġe þēofas eahta on ānre nihte tō þām ārweorðan hālgan, woldon stelan þā māðmas þe menn þæder brōhton, and cunnodon mid cræfte hū hīe inn cuman meahten. Sum slōg mid sleċġe swīðe þā hæpsan, sum heora mid fēole fēolode onbūtan, sum ēac underdealf þā duru mid spade, sum heora mid hlǣdre wolde onlūcan þæt ēagþyrel—ac hīe swuncon on īdel. (Then one night, eight unlucky thieves came to the saint's house to steal all the gifts that people had brought there, and carefully planned out how to break in. One of them hit the hasp hard with a sledgehammer, one messed around with a file, one dug under the door with a shovel, one climbed a ladder and tried to unlock a window—but they labored in vain.)
Cognates
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