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Old English · noun

scealc

Normalised sċealc

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong a-stem
Modern English
shalkservant

Meaning

  1. servant

  2. man, soldier, sailor

Declension

Declension of scealc
SingularPlural
Nominative sċealcsċealcas
Accusative sċealcsċealcas
Genitive sċealcessċealca
Dative sċealcesċealcum

All forms (6)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skalk, from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz. Cognate with Gothic (skalks, “slave, servant”) and Old High German skalk (“serf”).

Descendants

shalk

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