Elig
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Often derived in folk etymologies from ǣl (“eel”).
Proper noun[edit]
Ēlīg
- Ely, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire
Declension[edit]
The dative form is usually endingless, being identical to the nominative singular as Ēlīg.
Declension of Elig (strong ō-stem)
Further reading[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Élíg”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.