cnyll

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /knyll/, [knyɫ]

Noun

cnyll m

a knell, ring of a bell
a stroke, clap, knock (as on a bell or door)

Declension

Declension of cnyll (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cnyll	cnyllas
accusative	cnyll	cnyllas
genitive	cnylles	cnylla
dative	cnylle	cnyllum

Derived terms

forecnyll m (“a bell's earliest knell”)

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cnyll”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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