hwælweg

Old English

The Pacific Ocean as seen from the International Space Station.

Etymology

From hwæl +‎ weġ, literally "whale way".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxwælˌwej/, [ˈʍælˌwej]

Noun

hwælweġ m (nominative plural hwælweġas)

1. the ocean

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	hwælweġ	hwælweġas
accusative	hwælweġ	hwælweġas
genitive	hwælweġes	hwælweġa
dative	hwælweġe	hwælweġum

Synonyms

• brimstrēam
• ear m
• firgenstrēam
• fyrnstrēamas
• gārsecg
• ġeofon
• lagufæsten
• woruldwæter

References

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