eldertongue

Old English · noun

ele

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/ˈe.le/
Syllables
ˈe · le (2 syllables)
Modern English
oil

Meaning

  1. oil

    Ic ðē secge lxxx wintra of ðām trēowcynne ðe is nemned Sem.

    I tell thee, eighty years, of the wood that is called Sem

Declension

Declension of ele
SingularPlural
Nominative eleelas
Accusative eleelas
Genitive elesela
Dative eleelum

All forms (5)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *oli, from Latin oleum.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ele · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence · Attribution