iw – Old English noun declension

Noun: iw
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	īw
Plural	īwas

Genitive

Singular	īwes
Plural	īwa

Dative

Singular	īwe
Plural	īwum

Accusative

Singular	īw
Plural	īwas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like iw

iw, isernsmiþ, isearn,

Etymology

1. From Proto-Germanic *īwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-, a suffixed form of the base *h₁eyH- (“reddish, colourful”).
2. Cognate with Old High German īwa (German Eibe), Middle Low German īwe, Dutch ijf, Old Norse ýr (“bow, yew”). The Indo-European root is perhaps also the source of Old Irish ibar (Irish iúr), Proto-Balto-Slavic *eiwas (Lithuanian ievà), Proto-Slavic *jьva (Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”)), Latin ūva (“bunch of grapes”)).
3. The West Germanic languages have a variant *īhwaz with a guttural consonant, represented by Old English ēoh. See: German Nouns 'Eibe', Dutch Nouns 'ijf', Old Norse Nouns 'ýr', Irish Nouns 'iúr', Latin Nouns 'ūva'.