ealand – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of ealand

Noun: ealand
Gender: n

Nominative

Singularēaland
Pluralēaland

Genitive

Singularēalandes
Pluralēalanda

Dative

Singularēalande
Pluralēalandum

Accusative

Singularēaland
Pluralēaland

Sample Sentences

  • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  • ...þis ēalond hafað myċele lengran dagas on sumera, ⁊ swā ēac nihta on wintra, þonne ðā sūðdǣlas middanġeardes. (...this island has much longer days in the summer, and equally longer nights in the winter, than the southern parts of the world..)

Nouns inflected like ealand

ead, ealand, eþelriht, eþelland,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą. Cognate with Old Frisian alond, āland, eiland, Old Norse eyland. See: Old Norse Nouns 'eyland'.

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