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Old English · noun

rodor

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
IPA
/ˈro.dor/
Syllables
ˈro · dor (2 syllables)
Modern English
skyheavensheaven

Meaning

  1. sky, heaven, heavens

    God ġeworhte ðā sōna twā sċīnende lēoht myċele and mǣre, mōnan and sunnan, ðā sunnan on meriġen tō ðǣs dæġes lihtinge, ðone mōnan on ǣfen mannum tō lihtinge on nihtlīcere tīde...And ealle steorran hē ēac ðā ġeworhte, and hē hī ġefæstnode on ðām fæstan rodore ðæt hī ðā eorðan onlīhton mid heora mæniġfealdum lēoman

    Thereafter, God made two shining lights, a greater one and a lesser one, the moon and the sun, with the Sun to shine by day, and the moon to shine by night...and he also made all the stars, and he fixed them in the firm heavens so that they could illumine the earth with their manyfold rays.

    c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, transl., Hexameron of St. Basil:

Declension

Declension of rodor
SingularPlural
Nominative rodorrodorasrodras
Accusative rodorrodorasrodras
Genitive rodoresrodresrodorarodra
Dative rodorerodrerodorumrodrum

All forms (11)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *radur, from Proto-Germanic *raduraz (“wheel, sun, heaven, sky”).

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