deaþ – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of deaþ

Noun: deaþ
Gender:

Nominative

Singulardēaþ
Pluraldēaþas

Genitive

Singulardēaþes
Pluraldēaþa

Dative

Singulardēaþe
Pluraldēaþum

Accusative

Singulardēaþ
Pluraldēaþas

Sample Sentences

  • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"
  • ...ac hī þurhwunodon swā þēah on þām ġewinne ōð dēað. (...but they nevertheless continued in that warfare till death.)

Nouns inflected like deaþ

deawwyrm, deorling, deað, deaþ,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰautus. Cognate with Old Frisian dāth, Old Saxon dōth, Old Dutch *dōth, Old High German tōd, Old Norse dauðr, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus). See: Old Norse Nouns 'dauðr', Gothic Nouns '𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃'.

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