Old English · noun
steorfa
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- weak
- IPA
- /ˈste͜or.fɑ/[ˈste͜orˠ.vɑ]
- Syllables
- ˈste͜or · fɑ (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- pestilenceplacesmortalityflesh
Meaning
-
pestilence, mortality
-
dead animals and their flesh
-
dead things and their places of death
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sterbō, from Proto-Germanic *sterbô; compare steorfan.
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