Noun: stælhran
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | stælhrān |
| Plural | stælhrānas |
Genitive
| Singular | stælhrānes |
| Plural | stælhrāna |
Dative
| Singular | stælhrāne |
| Plural | stælhrānum |
Accusative
| Singular | stælhrān |
| Plural | stælhrānas |
Sample Sentences
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Þā dēor hī hātað hrānas. Þāra wǣron syx stӕlhrānas; ðā bēoð swȳðe dȳre mid Finnum, for ðǣm hȳ fōð þā wildan hrānas mid. (They call these animals reindeer. Six of them were decoy reindeer; they are very valuable to the Finns, because they capture the wild reindeer with them.) [c. 900, The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan]
Nouns inflected like stælhran
weorcstan,
sandstan,
tæflstan,
grundstan,
hagolstan,
sincstan,
weallstan,
byrþenstan,
papol-stan,
cweornstan,
stælhran,
tan,
hwamstan,
mealmstan,
hwetstan,
mylenstan,
wuldortan,
marmstan,
sealtstan,
misteltan, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First element uncertain, but the second part of the compound is hrān (“reindeer”).
Translations