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læfel

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Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *labal, *labil, from Latin lābellum.[1]

Noun

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læfel m

  1. cup, vessel, bowl[2]

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative læfel læfelas
accusative læfel læfelas
genitive læfeles læfela
dative læfele læfelum

References

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  1. ^ Holthausen, Ferdinand (1963) [1934], “læfel m.”, in Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old English Etymological Dictionary] (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, →OCLC, page 191.
  2. ^ Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “læfel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.