Noun: clif
Gender: n
Nominative
| Singular | clif |
| Plural | clifu; cleofu; cliofu |
Genitive
| Singular | clifes |
| Plural | clifa; cleofa; cliofa |
Dative
| Singular | clife |
| Plural | clifum; cleofum; cliofum |
Accusative
| Singular | clif |
| Plural | clifu; cleofu; cliofu |
Sample Sentences
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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An. DCCLXI Hēr wæs sē myċċla winter ⁊ Moll Norðhymbra cining ofslōh Ōswine æt Ædwines clife on octauo Īdūs Agustī. (Year 761 In this year was the great winter, and King Moll of Northumbria slew Oswine at Edwin's cliff on [in Latin] the eighth Ides of August.)
Nouns inflected like clif
clif,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *klib, from Proto-Germanic *klibą. Cognate with Old Saxon klif, Middle Dutch clif, clef (Dutch klif), Old High German kleb, Old Norse klif. See: Dutch Nouns '
klif'.
Verbs referencing "clif"
English Nouns
cliff, Middle English Nouns
clyf.
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