mereswin – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of mereswin

Noun: mereswin
Gender:

Nominative

Singularmereswīn
Pluralmereswīn

Genitive

Singularmereswīnes
Pluralmereswīna

Dative

Singularmereswīne
Pluralmereswīnum

Accusative

Singularmereswīn
Pluralmereswīn

Sample Sentences

  • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
  • Swylċe ēac þēos eorþe is berende missenlīcra fugela ⁊ sǣwihta ⁊ hēr bēoþ oft fanġene seolas ⁊ hronas and mereswȳn; ⁊ hēr bēoþ oft numene missenlīcra cynna weolcsċylle ⁊ muscule, ⁊ on þām oft ġemette þā betstan meregrotan ǣlces hīwes. (This land also bears various birds and sea creatures, and seals, porpoises, and dolphins are often caught here; and various kinds of mussels and shellfish are often taken, and in them the best pearls of every color are often found.)
  • Mereswīn bēoþ swīðe plegol nīetenu. (Dolphins are very playful animals.)

Nouns inflected like mereswin

mereswin, æppelwin, win, swin,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mariswīn. Equivalent to mere (“sea”) + swīn (“pig”). Cognate with Old Saxon meriswīn.

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