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Old English · noun

menigu

Normalised meniġu

Part of speech
noun, feminine
IPA
/ˈme.ni.ju/
Syllables
ˈme · ni · ju (3 syllables)
Modern English
crowd

Meaning

  1. crowd

    Sum wer on þǣre meniġe hrēop mīnne naman.

    A man in the crowd shouted my name.

Declension

Declension of menigu
SingularPlural
Nominative meniġumeniġumeniġameniġe
Accusative meniġumeniġemeniġumeniġameniġe
Genitive meniġumeniġemeniġa
Dative meniġumeniġemeniġum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *managī, from Proto-Germanic *managį̄. Equivalent to maniġ + -u.

Descendants

many

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