Old English · noun
wælstow
Normalised wælstōw
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /ˈwælˌstoːw/
- Syllables
- ˈwæl · ˌstoːw (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- battlefield
Meaning
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battlefield
An. DCCCXXXIII Hēr ġefeaht Eċġbriht cing wið XXXV sċiphlæsta æt Carrum ⁊ þǣr wearð myċel wæl ġesleġen, ⁊ þā Denisċan ahton wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ Hereferð ⁊ Wiġþeġn, tweġen bisċeopas, forðferdan, ⁊ Duda ⁊ Ōsmōd, tweġen ealdormenn, forðferdon.
Year 833 In this year King Edgebright fought against thirty-five shiploads of men at Charmouth, and many were slain, and the Danes took control of the battlefield. And two bishops, Herefrith and Wigthegn, and two aldermen, Duda and Osmod, died.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
wæl + stōw
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