sæl – Old English noun declension

Noun: sæl
Gender: n

Nominative

Singular	sæl; sǣl
Plural	salu; sǣlas; sǣle; sǣla

Genitive

Singular	sæles; sǣles; sǣle
Plural	sala; sǣla

Dative

Singular	sæle; sǣle
Plural	salum; sǣlum

Accusative

Singular	sæl; sǣl; sǣle
Plural	salu; sǣlas; sǣle; sǣla

Sample Sentences

Wuna salu sinchroden. (By custom, ornately decorated halls.)
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Eft æt sumum sæle ætslād sē hālga wer on ðām hēalīcum gradum æt þām hālgum wēofode, swā þæt hē fornēan eal wearð tōcwȳsed; ac on þǣre nihte hine ġelācnode God, ðurh his hālgan enġel, tō ansundre hǣle. (Also, at a certain hall, the holy man slipped on the high steps at the holy altar, so that almost his whole body became bruised; but in the night, God restored him to full health through his holy angel.)

Nouns inflected like sæl

sæl,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sal, from Proto-Germanic *salą. Cognate with Old High German sal, German Saal (“hall, large room”), French salle (“room”), Old Saxon sal, Dutch zaal. Compare sele, from a Germanic variant stem. See: German Nouns 'Saal', French Nouns 'salle', Dutch Nouns 'zaal'.

Verbs referencing "sæl"

French Nouns salle, English Nouns salon, French Nouns salon, Old English Nouns sele.