hwistlung
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, hwistlan (“to whistle”) + -ung
Noun
[edit]hwistlung f
Declension
[edit]Strong ō-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hwistlung | hwistlunga, hwistlunge |
| accusative | hwistlunge | hwistlunga, hwistlunge |
| genitive | hwistlunge | hwistlunga |
| dative | hwistlunge | hwistlungum |
Descendants
[edit]- English: whistling
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hwistlung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.