slege – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of slege

Noun: slege
Gender:

Nominative

Singularsleġe
Pluralsleġas

Genitive

Singularsleġes
Pluralsleġa

Dative

Singularsleġe
Pluralsleġum

Accusative

Singularsleġe
Pluralsleġas

Sample Sentences

  • early 11th century, anonymous gloss of Ælfric's Latin Colloquy (c. 995) (edited into idiomatic prose) (I'd rather catch a fish I can kill than a fish that can sink or kill not only me, but also my fishing partners in one blow. [Speaking of a whale.])
  • late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans
  • Hēo þā (sēo cwēn Dameris) mid miċelre gnornunge ymb þæs cyninges sleġe (hire suna) þenċende wæs, hū hēo hit ġewrecan meahte. (Meanwhile, Queen Tomyris was grieving over the king (her son's) murder, plotting her revenge.)
  • c. 996, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Lord"
  • Hē is ġelǣded tō sleġe swā swā sċēap. (He's led like a sheep to the slaughter.)

Nouns inflected like slege

slege, halpenige, mynetslege, lyge, bige, byge, hege, tyge, sige,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *slagi, from Proto-Germanic *slagiz.

Verbs referencing "slege"

Middle English Nouns slay, English Nouns sley.

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