blæd – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of blæd

Noun: blæd
Gender: n

Nominative

Singularblæd; blǣd
Pluralbladu; blǣdas

Genitive

Singularblædes; blǣdes
Pluralblada; blǣda

Dative

Singularblæde; blǣde
Pluralbladum; blǣdum

Accusative

Singularblæd; blǣd
Pluralbladu; blǣdas

Sample Sentences

  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Eft hē ontende sum hǣðen templ: þā ġewende sē līġ, ðurh þǣs windes blǣd, tō sumes mannes hūse, ðe þǣr ġehende stōd; ac Martinus āstāh on ðām stiċelan hrōfe, and sette hine sylfne onġēan ðām sweġendum līġe, and hē sōna ðrēow ðwyres wið þǣs windes (Afterwards he set fire to a heathen temple; then through the blowing of the wind, the fire turned to a man's house that stood nearby; but Martinus climbed on the steep roof and set himself against the roaring fire, and he immediately turned it the opposite direction of the wind)
  • Warað hine wræclāst, · nales wunden gold,
  • ferðloca frēoriġ, · nalæs foldan blǣd. (His path of exile not at all hold twisted gold,
  • the cold spirit, not at all earth's glory.) [10th century, The Wanderer:]
  • Forþon þæt eorla ġehwām, æftercweþendra lof lifġendra lāstworda betst. Þæt hē ġewyrċe, ǣr hē on weġ sċyle, fremman on foldan wið fēonda nīþ, dēorum dǣdum dēofle tōġēanes, þæt hine ælda bearn æfter herġen, ond his lof siþþan lifġe mid englum āwa tō ealdre, ēċan līfes blǣd, drēam mid dugeþum. (Thus, for every man, the praise of the after-speakers is the best of the living ones' reputations. That he would make it well, before he should set off on the way, to further on Earth against foes' hate, by bold deeds against the Devil, that children of men would afterwards praise him, and his honor since would live among the angels for ever and ever, blessedness, bliss with glees of the everlasting life.) [10th century, The Seafarer:]

Nouns inflected like blæd

blæd,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *bladą
4. Proto-West Germanic *blad
5. Old English blæd
6. From Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-tó-m, from *bʰleh₃-.
7. Cognate with Old Frisian bled (West Frisian bled), Old Saxon blad, Dutch blad, Old High German blat (German Blatt), Old Norse blað (Danish blad, Icelandic blað). See: Dutch Nouns 'blad', German Nouns 'Blatt', Old Norse Nouns 'blað', Danish Nouns 'blad', Icelandic Nouns 'blað'.

Verbs referencing "blæd"

English Nouns blade, Middle English Nouns blad, Old Norse Nouns blað.

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