smæc

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *smakku.

Noun

smæc m

1. smack, taste, flavour

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	smæc	smæccas
accusative	smæc	smæccas
genitive	smæcces	smæcca
dative	smæcce	smæccum

Derived terms

• smæċċan

Descendants

• Middle English: smak, smac, smach, ssmak, smacche, smake, smatche (Late Middle English), smech (AB language), smacc (Ormulum)
  • English: smack
  • Scots: smack
    • ⇒? Scots: smick

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “smæc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.