weorcdæg
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *werkadagaz. Cognate with Old High German werctag and Old Norse verkdagr. Equivalent to weorc + dæġ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]weorcdæġ m
- workday (day on which work is done; in Anglo-Saxon England, typically any day but Sunday)
Declension
[edit]Declension of weorcdæġ (strong a-stem)
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | weorcdæġ | weorcdagas |
accusative | weorcdæġ | weorcdagas |
genitive | weorcdæġes | weorcdaga |
dative | weorcdæġe | weorcdagum |
Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “weorc-dæg”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.