cnyll

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knyll/, [knyɫ]

Noun

cnyll m

1. a knell, ring of a bell
2. a stroke, clap, knock (as on a bell or door)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	cnyll	cnyllas
accusative	cnyll	cnyllas
genitive	cnylles	cnylla
dative	cnylle	cnyllum

Derived terms

• forecnyll m (“a bell's earliest knell”)

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cnyll”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.