Old English · noun
mæce
Normalised mǣċe
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong ja-stem
- IPA
- /ˈmæː.t͡ʃe/
- Syllables
- ˈmæː · t͡ʃe (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- sword
Meaning
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sword
…hē on merġenne mēċes eċġum ġētan wolde sum on galgtrēowum fēðan tō gamene.
…he in the morning wished to kill, for mirth, some of the army on gallows trees by edges of a sword.
c. 700–1000, Beowulf:
Declension
All forms (5)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz. Cognate with Old Saxon māki, Old Norse mækir, and Gothic (mēkeis). Borrowed into Slavic: see e.g. Russian меч (meč), Serbo-Croatian mȁč, Czech, Slovak and Slovene meč, Polish miecz.
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