Noun: hwetstan
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | hwetstān |
| Plural | hwetstānas |
Genitive
| Singular | hwetstānes |
| Plural | hwetstāna |
Dative
| Singular | hwetstāne |
| Plural | hwetstānum |
Accusative
| Singular | hwetstān |
| Plural | hwetstānas |
Sample Sentences
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Þā sċearpestan eċġe man wyrcþ mid þon stumpan hwetstāne. (The sharpest edge is made with a blunt whetstone.)
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Hēo hwette hire seax on lȳtlum hwetstāne þe hēo of hiere pohhan ātēah. (She sharpened her knife on a little whetstone that she'd pulled out of her pocket.)
Nouns inflected like hwetstan
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 Proto-West Germanic *hwattjastain. Equivalent to hwettan (“to sharpen”) + stān (“stone”).
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