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Old English · suffix

-els

Part of speech
suffix, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/els/
[eɫs]
Syllables
els (1 syllable)
Modern English
-al-l-lecreating

Meaning

  1. suffix creating nouns from verbs

    rǣdels

    guess, advice, riddle

Declension

Declension of -els
SingularPlural
Nominative -els-elsas
Accusative -els-elsas
Genitive -elses-elsa
Dative -else-elsum

All forms (6)

Etymology

A metathetic form of Proto-West Germanic *-islī.

Descendants

-al, -l, -le

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