weofod – Old English noun declension

Noun: weofod
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	wēofod
Plural	wēofodu

Genitive

Singular	wēofodes
Plural	wēofoda

Dative

Singular	wēofode
Plural	wēofodum

Accusative

Singular	wēofod
Plural	wēofodu

Sample Sentences

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 weofod

weofod, weofed,

Etymology

From pre-Old English *wīohbēod, equivalent to wēoh (“idol, image”) + bēod (“offering stage, dish”). The replacement of /b/ with /f/ is motivated by the fact that medial /b/ historically developed to [v], and the word was no longer felt to be a compound.