rod – Old English noun declension

Noun: rod
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	rōd
Plural	rōda; rōde

Genitive

Singular	rōde
Plural	rōda

Dative

Singular	rōde
Plural	rōdum

Accusative

Singular	rōde
Plural	rōda; rōde

Sample Sentences

he munegeð uſ an oðer rode to berene...fleiſeſ lenſing. (He [God] exhorts us to bear another cross...leanness of flesh.) [c. 1200 AD, “Sermon XV”, in The Lambeth Homilies, page 113 (f. 55r), lines 24–25/27:]

Nouns inflected like rod

rod, brod,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rōdō. Cognate with Old Frisian rōd, Old Saxon rōda, Dutch roede (“rod”), Old High German ruota (German Rute), Old Norse róða (“rod, cross”) (Danish rode (“gauge, rod”)). See: Dutch Nouns 'roede', German Nouns 'Rute', Old Norse Nouns 'róða', Danish Nouns 'rode'.