Old English · noun

scræf

Normalised sċræf

Part of speech: noun, neuter
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /ʃræf/
Syllables: ʃræf (1 syllable)
Modern English: cave cavern

Meaning

cave, cavern

Old English Heptateuch, Genesis 19:30

Frightened, Lot dared not stay in Zoar, but went with his two daughters to the mountain, and there all three of them lived in a cave.
miserable dwelling: den, hell

Declension

Declension of scræf
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sċræf	sċrafu
Accusative	sċræf	sċrafu
Genitive	sċræfes	sċrafa
Dative	sċræfe	sċrafum

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skrabą (“cave, cavern, pit”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), and thereby cognate with Latin scrobis (“ditch, trench”), and related to Old English scrapian (“to scrape”), screpan (“to scratch”).

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