Noun: cweornstan
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | cweornstān |
| Plural | cweornstānas |
Genitive
| Singular | cweornstānes |
| Plural | cweornstāna |
Dative
| Singular | cweornstāne |
| Plural | cweornstānum |
Accusative
| Singular | cweornstān |
| Plural | cweornstānas |
Sample Sentences
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Lǣt niman ǣnne grēatne cwurnstān and hǣtan hine and lecgan hine under þone man (Let one take a great quernstone and heat it and lie it underneath it)
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Ðæt him wǣre getiged ān ormǣte cwyrnstān to his swuran, and he swā wurde on dēoppre sǣ besenced (That to him were tied an immense quernstone on his neck, and so was he sunk in the deep sea)
Nouns inflected like cweornstan
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
From cweorn + stān, from cweornstān, from Proto-Germanic *kwernōstainaz. Cognate with Old High German quirnstein and Old Norse kvernsteinn. See: Old Norse Nouns '
kvernsteinn'.
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