blod – Old English noun declension

Noun: blod
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	blōd
Plural	blōd

Genitive

Singular	blōdes
Plural	blōda

Dative

Singular	blōde
Plural	blōdum

Accusative

Singular	blōd
Plural	blōd

Sample Sentences

Wæs þæt blōd hāt. (The blood was hot.)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
An. DLXXXV Hēr wearþ on Brytene blōdi rēn ⁊ meolc and butere wurdon ġewend to blōde. (Year 685 In this year there was bloody rain in Britain and milk and butter were turned into blood.)
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Moyses, ðurh Godes mihte, āwende eal heora wæter tō rēadum blōde, and hē āfylde eal heora land mid froggon, and siððan mid gnættum, eft mid hundes lūsum, ðā flugon into heora mūðe and heora næsðyrlum; and sē Ælmihtiġa ðone mōdiġan cyning mid þām eaðelicum ġesċeaftum swā gėswencte... (Moses, through the power of God, turned all their water into red blood, and filled all of their land with frogs, and then with gnats, and afterwards with dogflies, which flew into their mouths and their nostrils; the Almighty punished their proud king in that way with every kind of creature...)

Nouns inflected like blod

þolemod, mod, strod, blod,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *blōd.
2. Cognate with Old Frisian and Old Saxon blōd, Old Dutch bluot, Old High German bluot, Old Norse blóð, and Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ). See: Old Norse Nouns 'blóð', Gothic Nouns '𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸'.