hægl – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of hægl

Noun: hægl
Gender:

Nominative

Singularhæġl
Pluralhæġlas

Genitive

Singularhæġles
Pluralhæġla

Dative

Singularhæġle
Pluralhæġlum

Accusative

Singularhæġl
Pluralhæġlas

Sample Sentences

  • 10th century, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year
  • Hæġl cymþ of rēndropum þonne hī bēoþ ġefrorene upp on þǣre lyfte, and swā siþþan feallað. (Hail comes from raindrops when they're frozen up in the air, and so fall to the ground.)
  • The Old English rune poem
  • ᚻ byþ hwītust corna... (Hail is the whitest of grains...)

Nouns inflected like hægl

snægl, tægl, hægl,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”).

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