stæf – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of stæf

Noun: stæf
Gender: m

Nominative

Singularstæf
Pluralstafas

Genitive

Singularstæfes
Pluralstafa

Dative

Singularstæfe
Pluralstafum

Accusative

Singularstæf
Pluralstafas

Sample Sentences

  • c. 899, Alfred the Great, Psalm 23 (Your rod and your staff comfort me.)
  • c. 992, Ælfric, "Midlent Sunday"
  • On ōðre wīsan wē sċēawiaþ mētinge and on ōðre wīsan stafas. Ne gǣþ nā māre tō mētinge būtan þæt þū hit ġesēo and herie. Nis nā ġenōg þæt þū stafas sċēawiġe būtan þū hīe ēac rǣde and þæt andġiet understande. (We look at pictures in one way and letters in another. You don't do anything with a painting except see it and praise it. Looking at letters is not enough unless you also read them and understand the meaning.)

Nouns inflected like stæf

wyrdstæf, gyrnstæf, candelstæf, stæf,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stabaz, whence also Old High German stab, Old Norse stafr. See: Old Norse Nouns 'stafr'.

Verbs referencing "stæf"

English Nouns staff, Old English Nouns stapol, Old Norse Nouns stafr, Middle English Nouns staf, Ancient Greek Nouns σταφυλή.

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