beag – Old English noun declension

Noun: beag
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	bēag
Plural	bēagas

Genitive

Singular	bēages
Plural	bēaga

Dative

Singular	bēage
Plural	bēagum

Accusative

Singular	bēag
Plural	bēagas

Sample Sentences

c. 897, King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
Sē þe ūs ġehǣlþ fram þām stiċe ūrra synna, hē ġeþafode þæt him man sette þyrnenne bēag on þæt hēafod. (The person who heals us from the stabs of our sins allowed a crown of thorns to be placed on his head.)
Late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 38:18 (Judah asked, "What do you want to take as a pledge?" She said, "Your ring and your armlet and your staff that you have in your hand.")

Nouns inflected like beag

beogang, beag, beam, beaw, beod, beor,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, derived from *beuganą (“to bend”). Cognate with Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Old High German boug, and Old Norse baugr. See: Old Norse Nouns 'baugr'.