aweb
Old English
Alternative forms
- ōweb
- āb (possibly)
Etymology
Prefix is either ā-/an-/on- (“on/upon/to, in/into”)[1] or ā-/ar- (“away”).[2] See also āwefan,[3] wefan.
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Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Middle English:
- English: abb
References
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “ā”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 1
- Hans-Friedrich Rosenfeld (1958) Wort- und Sachstudien: Untersuchungen zur Terminologie des Aufzugs, zu Webstuhl und Schermethode der germanischen Bronze- und Eisenzeit und zur Frauentracht der Bronzezeit sowie der Frage ihres Fortlebens in der Volkstracht, volume 9, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, page 5
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “āwefan”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 27
Further reading
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “āweb”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 27
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “ō-web”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 233
- William Dwight Whitney (1895) “abb”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume 1, New York: The Century Co., page 6
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