nefa – Old English noun declension

Noun: nefa
Gender: m

Nominative

Singular	nefa
Plural	nefan

Genitive

Singular	nefan
Plural	nefena

Dative

Singular	nefan
Plural	nefum

Accusative

Singular	nefan
Plural	nefan

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like nefa

sealma, cristalla, snecga, smitta, sogoþa, yrfenuma, selfbana, bedreda, worhana, uuituma, merefara, collecta, hringedstefna, wyrtwala, wyrtruma, ferðloca, græshoppa, ferþloca, forespreca, græsstapa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *nefō, from Proto-Germanic *nefô, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.
2. Cognate with Old Frisian neva, Old Saxon nevo (German Low German Neev), Old High German nevo (German Neffe), Old Norse nefi; also Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬞𐬁𐬝 (napāt̰), Latin nepōs, Old Irish nia, Welsh nai, Proto-Slavic *netьjь (Slovene nečak. See: German Nouns 'Neffe', Old Norse Nouns 'nefi', Latin Nouns 'nepōs'.

Verbs referencing "nefa"

English Nouns nephew, English Nouns neve, Middle English Nouns neve, Irish Nouns nia.

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