beofung – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of beofung

Noun: beofung
Gender: f

Nominative

Singularbeofung
Pluralbeofunga; beofunge

Genitive

Singularbeofunge
Pluralbeofunga

Dative

Singularbeofunge
Pluralbeofungum

Accusative

Singularbeofunge
Pluralbeofunga; beofunge

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like beofung

hwistlung, serfis, beofung, ypping, leornung, syfling, fyrding, herebeorg, hlacerung, hæftnung, setlung, delfing, feldwyrt, cnyssung, feltwyrt, predicung, samnung, bisgung, feormung, brytsen, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bibungu. Equivalent to bifian + -ung. The -eo- is from back umlaut, which did not affect bifian because its second syllable lacked a back vowel. The alternative form bifung has its -i- leveled in from bifian.

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