plegstow

Old English

Etymology

By surface analysis, pleġa (“play”) +‎ -stōw (“place”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplejˌstoːw/

Noun

pleġstōw f

1. a place for play
2. gymnasium
3. place for wrestling

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	pleġstōw	pleġstōwa, pleġstōwe
accusative	pleġstōwe	pleġstōwa, pleġstōwe
genitive	pleġstōwe	pleġstōwa
dative	pleġstōwe	pleġstōwum

References

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