wæterclaþ

Old English

Etymology

Compound of wæter (“water”) +‎ clāþ (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwæ.terˌklɑːθ/

Noun

wæterclāþ m

1. a towel

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wæterclāþ	wæterclāþas
accusative	wæterclāþ	wæterclāþas
genitive	wæterclāþes	wæterclāþa
dative	wæterclāþe	wæterclāþum

Further reading

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