beorhtnes
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]beorhtnes f (nominative plural beorhtnessa)
Declension
[edit]Strong ō-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | beorhtnes | beorhtnessa, beorhtnesse |
accusative | beorhtnesse | beorhtnessa, beorhtnesse |
genitive | beorhtnesse | beorhtnessa |
dative | beorhtnesse | beorhtnessum |
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: briȝtnesse, brightnesse, bryghtnes
- English: brightness
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “beorhtnes”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.