gierd – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of gierd

Noun: gierd
Gender:

Nominative

Singularġierd
Pluralġierde; ġierda

Genitive

Singularġierde
Pluralġierda

Dative

Singularġierde
Pluralġierdum

Accusative

Singularġierd; ġierde
Pluralġierde; ġierda

Sample Sentences

  • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
  • Iċ wille þē slēan mid ġierde. (I want to hit you with a rod.)
  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Þā cwæð sē Ælmihtiġa tō Moysen, "Āstreċe ðīne hand ofer ðā sǣ, and tōdǣl hī." And Moyses ðā slōh þǣre sǣ ofer mid his ġyrde, and sēo sǣ tōēode on twā, and eal þæt Israhela folc ēode ofer ðā sǣ bē drīum grunde, and þæt wæter stōd him on twā healfa swilċe ōðer stānweall. (Then the Almighty said to Moses: "Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it." And then Moses struck the sea with his staff, and the sea divided in two, and all the Israelites crossed over the sea on dry ground, and the water stood in two halves like stone walls.)

Nouns inflected like gierd

gedryht, gierd, gebyrd, gift,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gaʀdi.

Translations