mereflod – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of mereflod

Noun: mereflod
Gender:

Nominative

Singularmereflōd
Pluralmereflōdas

Genitive

Singularmereflōdes
Pluralmereflōda

Dative

Singularmereflōde
Pluralmereflōdum

Accusative

Singularmereflōd
Pluralmereflōdas

Sample Sentences

  • Forþon nū mīn hyġe hweorfeð ofer hreþerlocan; mīn mōdsefa mid mereflōde ofer hwæles ēþel hweorfeð wīde, eorþan sċēatas, cymeð eft tō mē ġīfre ond grǣdiġ; ġielleð ānfloga, hweteð on wæl weġ hreþer unwearnum ofer holma ġelagu. (Thus, my mind now wanders over heartstead; my soul wanders afar with the sea-flood over whale’s home, on the Earth’s corners, comes back, greedy and hungry, to me; the lone-flyer yells, whets the soul on the slain way over the stretch of waters with no refuses.) [10th century, The Seafarer:]

Nouns inflected like mereflod

mereflod, hod, wod, wæterflod, wermod, flod,

Etymology

From mere (“sea”) + flōd (“flood”).

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