eard – Old English noun declension

Noun: eard
Gender: m

Nominative

Singular	eard
Plural	earda; eardas

Genitive

Singular	earda; eardes
Plural	earda

Dative

Singular	earda; earde
Plural	eardum

Accusative

Singular	eard
Plural	earda; eardas

Sample Sentences

Ðis is mīn āgen ēþel, eard, and land (This is my own country, home and land.)
c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Greater Litany"
Wē sind eall cuman on þissum līfe, and ūre eard nis nā hēr, ac wē sind hēr swelċe weġfērende menn. Ān cymþ, ōðer færeþ. Sē biþ ācenned, sē ōðer forþfæreþ and rȳmþ him setl. (We are all guests in this life, and our home is not here, but we're here as wayfaring people. One person comes, another goes. One is born, another dies and makes them room.)
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Þæt seofode wīte wæs, þæt swā miċel ðunor and hagol becōm on ðām lēodsċipe, þæt...ǣlċ trēow on ðām earde tōbǣrst. (The seventh plague was that there was such great thunder and hail in that country, that...every tree in the land split in two.)

Nouns inflected like eard

feald, eard, feld, ford,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *ard, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz, *arduz, *arþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).
2. Cognate with Old Saxon ard, Old High German art (German Art). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin arō, Ancient Greek ἀρόω (aróō), Old East Slavic орати (orati), Russian ора́ть (orátʹ). See: German Nouns 'Art', Latin Nouns 'arō'.

Verbs referencing "eard"

Middle English Nouns erd.