meduheall
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From medu (“mead”) + heall (“hall”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meduheall f
- (poetic) mead-hall
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- sōhte seledrēoriġ · sinces bryttan,
hwǣr iċ feor oþþe nēah · findan meahte
þone þe in meoduhealle · mīne wisse- sought hall-sad a giver of treasure,
where I far or near could find
who in a mead-hall would know my men
- sought hall-sad a giver of treasure,
Declension
[edit]Declension of meduheall (strong ō-stem)
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “meduheall”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.