niedcleofa

Old English

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Etymology

nīed (“force”) +‎ clēofa (“chamber”)

Noun

nīedclēofa m

1. prison

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	nīedclēofa	nīedclēofan
accusative	nīedclēofan	nīedclēofan
genitive	nīedclēofan	nīedclēofena
dative	nīedclēofan	nīedclēofum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “níd-cleofa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.