Scrobbesburh
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *sċrob (“shrub, scrub”) + burh.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Sċrobbesburh f
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | Sċrobbesburh | — |
accusative | Sċrobbesburh | — |
genitive | Sċrobbesbyriġ | — |
dative | Sċrobbesbyriġ | — |
Derived terms
[edit]- Sċrobbesbyriġsċīr f (“Shropshire”)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English:
- English: Shrewsbury
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Sċrobbesburh”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.