regnwæter

Old English

Alternative forms

• rēnwæter

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *regnawatar, from Proto-Germanic *regnawatōr. Cognate with Old High German reganwazzar and Icelandic regnvatn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrejnˌwæ.ter/

Noun

reġnwæter n

1. rainwater

Declension

Declension of reġnwæter (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	reġnwæter	reġnwæter
accusative	reġnwæter	reġnwæter
genitive	reġnwæteres	reġnwætera
dative	reġnwætere	reġnwæterum

Descendants

• Middle English: rein water, reyn water, reyne water, rayne water, rayn water
  • English: rainwater

Further reading

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