eldertongue

Old English · noun

heolor

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
strong ō-stem
IPA
/ˈxe͜o.lor/
[ˈhe͜o.lor]
Syllables
ˈxe͜o · lor (2 syllables)
Modern English
balancescales

Meaning

  1. balance, scales

Declension

Declension of heolor
SingularPlural
Nominative heolorheoloraheolore
Accusative heoloreheoloraheolore
Genitive heoloreheolora
Dative heoloreheolorum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *heluru, from Proto-Germanic *helurō (“balance, scales”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to protrude; high”).

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