Old English · proper noun
Sceapieg
Normalised Sċēapīeġ
- Part of speech
- proper noun, feminine
- Declension
- strong ō-stem
- IPA
- /ˈʃæ͜ɑːpˌi͜yːj/
- Syllables
- ˈʃæ͜ɑːp · ˌi͜yːj (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- sheppeyisle
Meaning
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Isle of Sheppey
An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm...
Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with much honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Declension
All forms (2)
Etymology
From sċēap (“sheep”) + īeġ (“island”).
Descendants
sheppey
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