bæl – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of bæl

Noun: bæl
Gender:

Nominative

Singularbǣl
Pluralbǣl

Genitive

Singularbǣles
Pluralbǣla

Dative

Singularbǣle
Pluralbǣlum

Accusative

Singularbǣl
Pluralbǣl

Sample Sentences

  • Sċyle monna ġehwylċ · mid ġemete healdan
  • wiþ lēofne ond wið lāþne bealo,
  • þēah þe hē hine wille fȳres fulne
  • oþþe on bǣle · forbærnedne
  • his ġeworhtne wine. (Each of the men should handle with weight a beloved one or a loathsome evil, even if he might wish his made friend full of fire or burnt on bonfire.) [10th century, The Seafarer:]

Nouns inflected like bæl

mæl, bæl,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bāl, from Proto-Germanic *bēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with Old Norse bál (whence Icelandic bál (“a fire; a conflagration”), Danish bål (“fire, bonfire, pyre”), Norwegian bål and Swedish bål (“pyre, bonfire”)). Further Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit भाल (bhāla, “splendour”), Ancient Greek φαλός (phalós, “white”) and Old Armenian բալ (bal, “fog”). See: Icelandic Nouns 'bál', Danish Nouns 'bål', Swedish Nouns 'bål'.

Verbs referencing "bæl"

Faroese Nouns bál, Icelandic Nouns bál.

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