lichama – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of lichama

Noun: lichama
Gender:

Nominative

Singularlīchama
Plurallīchaman

Genitive

Singularlīchaman
Plurallīchamena

Dative

Singularlīchaman
Plurallīchamum

Accusative

Singularlīchaman
Plurallīchaman

Sample Sentences

  • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
  • Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe? (If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?)

Nouns inflected like lichama

lichoma, lichama,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līkahamō, equivalent to līċ + hama. More details at English likam.

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