ealh – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of ealh

Noun: ealh
Gender: m

Nominative

Singularealh
Pluralēalas

Genitive

Singularēales
Pluralēala

Dative

Singularēale
Pluralēalum

Accusative

Singularealh
Pluralēalas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like ealh

ealh, eolh,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *alh, from Proto-Germanic *alhs (“protection, building, house, temple, settlement”), cognate to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 (alhs) and Proto-Norse ᚨᛚᚺ (alh).
2. According to Pokorny (1959:32) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to close, ward off, protect”), i.e. the root of Ancient Greek ἀλέξω (aléxō) and Sanskrit रक्षति (rakṣati, “guard, protect”), though Kroonen (2013:22 s.v. alh-) dismisses this as “arbitrary[.]” See: Gothic Nouns '𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "ealh"

Gothic Nouns 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃.

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