hwealf
Old English
Alternative forms
- hwalf
- hƿealf — wynn spelling
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hwalbą, *hwalfą. Cognate with Old High German walbe, Old Norse hvalf (Icelandic hólf).
Pronunciation
Noun
hwealf f
Declension
Declension of hwealf (strong a-stem)
Adjective
hwealf
- arched, vaulted, hollow, concave, bent
- 10th century, Anonymous, Judith XI 214, Nowell Codex:
Declension
Declension of hwealf — Strong
Declension of hwealf — Weak
Related terms
References
- ^ 1902, J. Lesslie Hall, Judith, Phœnix and other Anglo-Saxon poems, Silver Burdett and Company, New York, p.12
- ^ 1888, Albert S. Cook, Judith, an Old English epic fragment, D.C. Heath & Co, Boston 1888, pp. 17-19
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “hwealf”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hwealf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.