eldertongue

Old English · noun

clif

Part of speech
noun, neuter
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/klif/
Syllables
klif (1 syllable)
Modern English
cliffrockscrag

Meaning

  1. a cliff; a group of rocks or crag

    An. DCCLXI Hēr wæs sē myċċla winter ⁊ Moll Norðhymbra cining ofslōh Ōswine æt Ædwines clife on octauo Īdūs Agustī.

    Year 761 In this year was the great winter, and King Moll of Northumbria slew Oswine at Edwin's cliff on [in Latin] the eighth Ides of August.

    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Declension

Declension of clif
SingularPlural
Nominative clifclifucleofucliofu
Accusative clifclifucleofucliofu
Genitive clifesclifacleofacliofa
Dative clifeclifumcleofumcliofum

All forms (12)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *klib, from Proto-Germanic *klibą. Cognate with Old Saxon klif, Middle Dutch clif, clef (Dutch klif), Old High German kleb, Old Norse klif.

Descendants

cliff

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