weg – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of weg

Noun: weg
Gender:

Nominative

Singularweġ
Pluralwegas

Genitive

Singularweġes
Pluralwega

Dative

Singularweġe
Pluralwegum

Accusative

Singularweġ
Pluralwegas

Sample Sentences

  • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
  • Ġetǣċ mē þone weġ. (Show me the way.)
  • c. 992, Ælfric of Eynsham, "The Epiphany of the Lord"
  • Wē ne magon ġeċierran þæs weġes þe wē cōmon. (We can't go back the way we came.)
  • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  • Hē lǣdde mē eft þȳ selfan weġe þe wit ǣr cōmon. (He brought me back the same way we came before.)
  • The Life of Saint Margaret
  • Eall hīe hāl and ġesund on heora weġe hām ġewenton. (They all went safe and sound on their way home.)
  • Æðelswīþ cwēn, sēo wæs Ælfrēdes sweostor cyninges, forþfērde be Rōme weġe. [Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, year 888]
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Deuteronomy 1:22 (Let's send spies who can survey the land and tell us which way to go and to what cities.)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
  • nu ic wæs of þam rihtan wege mines ingeþances ac betere hit bið þæt ic eft fare ut of þysum porte ðylæs þe ic to swiðe dwelige and for-þy þonne ne cume to minum geferum þe me ær hyder sendon; gewislice ic her ongyten hæbbe þæt me hæfð gelæht fæste mines modes oferstige þæt ic nat na forgeare hu ic hit þus macige. (Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.)
  • 10th century, Kentish gloss of the Book of Proverbs
  • þurh þīestre wegas (through dark roads)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Numbers 21:22 (Wherever the road leads, we will go.)

Nouns inflected like weg

gangweg, healfweg, weg, wœg, færweg, feorweg, forþweg, forðweg,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.
2. Cognates include Old Frisian wei, Old Saxon weg, Old Dutch weg, Old High German weg, Old Norse vegr, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃 (wigs). Compare West Frisian wei, Dutch weg, Icelandic vegur, Faroese vegur, Danish vej, Norwegian vei, and Swedish väg, which are all still the main word for both "way" and "road" in their respective languages. See: Old Norse Nouns 'vegr', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌹𐌲𐍃', Dutch Nouns 'weg', Icelandic Nouns 'vegur', Faroese Nouns 'vegur', Danish Nouns 'vej', Swedish Nouns 'väg'.

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