þeod – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of þeod

Noun: þeod
Gender:

Nominative

Singularþēod
Pluralþēoda; þēode

Genitive

Singularþēode
Pluralþēoda

Dative

Singularþēode
Pluralþēodum

Accusative

Singularþēode
Pluralþēoda; þēode

Sample Sentences

  • ...on þǣm twām Ægyptum [sindon] fēower and twēntiġ þēoda. (...in the two Egypts, there are twenty-four peoples.) [late 9th century, Orosius’, History Against the Pagans:]
  • 1000-1020, Wulfstan archbishop of York Homilies
  • and hēo mihton sprecan on ǣghwylcere þēode ðe betwux heofonum and eorðan wǣre (and they could speak in every language there was between heaven and earth)
  • Þa wæs þeodsceaða, þriddan siðe, frecne fyrdraca, fæhða ȝemyndiȝ. (There were great scathe, for a third time, freakish firedrake, feuding in mind) [8–9th century, Beowulf:]

Nouns inflected like þeod

þeoft, þenung, þenest, þeod,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þeudu.

Verbs referencing "þeod"

Latvian Nouns tauta.

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