Hæstingas
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *Hæsta (“a personal name”) + -ing (“follower”) + -as (nominative/accusative plural), literally “followers of Hæsta”, a term transferred to their settlement.
Proper noun
[edit]Hæstingas m pl
- Hastings (a town in East Sussex, England), site of the Battle of Hastings
Declension
[edit]Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | Hæstingas |
| accusative | — | Hæstingas |
| genitive | — | Hæstinga |
| dative | — | Hæstingum |
Descendants
[edit]- English: Hastings
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Hæstingas”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Categories:
- Old English terms suffixed with -ing
- Old English terms suffixed with -as
- Old English lemmas
- Old English proper nouns
- Old English masculine nouns
- Old English pluralia tantum
- ang:Towns in East Sussex, England
- ang:Towns in England
- ang:Places in East Sussex, England
- ang:Places in England
- Old English masculine a-stem nouns