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Old English · noun

hruse

Normalised hrūse

Part of speech
noun, feminine
Declension
weak n-stem
IPA
/ˈxruː.se/
[ˈr̥uː.ze]
Syllables
ˈxruː · se (2 syllables)
Modern English
surface

Meaning

  1. the surface of the earth; the ground

    hrūsan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,

    since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s) with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,

    siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e

Declension

Declension of hruse
SingularPlural
Nominative hrūsehrūsan
Accusative hrūsanhrūsan
Genitive hrūsanhrūsena
Dative hrūsanhrūsum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hrusā, from Proto-Germanic *hrusǭ (“ground; ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *krus- (“crust”). Cognate with Old High German hroso, hrosa (“ice, crust”), Latin crusta (“crust”).

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