nosþyrel – Old English noun declension

Noun: nosþyrel
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	nosþȳrel
Plural	nosþȳrlu

Genitive

Singular	nosþȳrles
Plural	nosþȳrla

Dative

Singular	nosþȳrle
Plural	nosþȳrlum

Accusative

Singular	nosþȳrel
Plural	nosþȳrlu

Sample Sentences

late 10th century, Ælfric, "Preface to Genesis"
God ġesċōp ūs twā ēagan and twā ēaran, twā nosþȳrlu and twēġen weoloras, twā handa and twēġen fēt. (God gave us two eyes and two ears, two nostrils and two lips, two hands and two feet.)
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 næsðȳrlum; and sē Ælmihtiġa ðone mōdiġan cyning mid þām ēaðelicum 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 nosþyrel

nosþyrel, earsþyrel, næsþyrel,

Etymology

1. From nosu (“nose”) + þȳrel (“hole”). Cognate with Old Frisian nosterle (“nostril”).
2. Compare also Middle Low German noster, nüster (whence German Nüster), which is usually regarded as a different construct, however.

Verbs referencing "nosþyrel"

English Nouns nostril, Middle English Nouns nosethirl, Middle English Nouns nostrille.