eldertongue

Old English · noun

ealh

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/æ͜ɑlx/
[æ͜ɑɫx]
Syllables
æ͜ɑlx (1 syllable)
Modern English
temple

Meaning

  1. temple

  2. residence

Declension

Declension of ealh
SingularPlural
Nominative ealhēalas
Accusative ealhēalas
Genitive ēalesēala
Dative ēaleēalum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *alh, from Proto-Germanic *alhs (“protection, building, house, temple, settlement”), cognate to Gothic (alhs) and Proto-Norse (alh). According to Pokorny (1959:32) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to close, ward off, protect”), i.e. the root of Ancient Greek ἀλέξω (aléxō) and Sanskrit रक्षति (rakṣati, “guard, protect”), though Kroonen (2013:22 s.v. alh-) dismisses this as “arbitrary[.]”

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