hwælweg
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Old English
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Etymology
[edit]From hwæl + weġ, literally "whale way".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hwælweġ m (nominative plural hwælweġas)
- the ocean
Declension
[edit]Declension of hwælweg (strong a-stem)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hwælweg”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.