flod – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of flod

Noun: flod
Gender:

Nominative

Singularflōd
Pluralflōdas

Genitive

Singularflōdes
Pluralflōda

Dative

Singularflōde
Pluralflōdum

Accusative

Singularflōd
Pluralflōdas

Sample Sentences

  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Đā ġesēah hē swymman sċealfran on flōde, and ġelōme doppettan ādūne tō grunde, ēhtende ðearle þǣre ēa fixa. (Then he saw loons swim in the water, and often dive down toward the bottom, eagerly chasing the fish of the river.)

Nouns inflected like flod

mereflod, hod, wod, wæterflod, wermod, flod,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“flow”). Cognate with Old Saxon flōd, Old Dutch fluot (Dutch vloed), Old High German fluot (German Flut), Old Norse flóð (Icelandic flóð), Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus). See: Dutch Nouns 'vloed', German Nouns 'Flut', Old Norse Nouns 'flóð', Icelandic Nouns 'flóð', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃'.

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