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Old English · noun

neo

Normalised nēo

Part of speech
noun, neuter
Declension
strong wa-stem
IPA
/ne͜oː/
Syllables
ne͜oː (1 syllable)
Modern English
corpse

Meaning

  1. a corpse

Declension

Declension of neo
SingularPlural
Nominative nēonēo
Accusative nēonēo
Genitive nēowesnēowa
Dative nēowenēowum

All forms (5)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *nawi, from Proto-Germanic *nawiz, *nawaz (“corpse”), from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“the deceased, corpse”).

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