hwistlere
Appearance
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hwistle (“hollow reed”) + -ere (“-er”, suffix forming masculine agent nouns).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hwistlere m
Declension
[edit]Strong ja-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | hwistlere | hwistleras |
accusative | hwistlere | hwistleras |
genitive | hwistleres | hwistlera |
dative | hwistlere | hwistlerum |
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: whistlere, whystelare, Wistler, Wyzelere
- English: whistler, Whistler, Wissler
- Scots: quhisilar, quhissillar
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hwistlere”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.