Old English · noun
hwil
Normalised hwīl
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /xwiːl/[ʍiːl]
- Syllables
- xwiːl (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- while
Meaning
-
while, period of time
sume hwīle
for a while
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hwīlu. Cognate with Old Frisian hwīle, Old Saxon hwīla, Old High German wīla, Old Norse hvíla, Gothic (ƕeila).
Descendants
while
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