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

rainwater

Declension

Declension of regnwæter (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, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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