cwalu

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kwalu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkwɑ.lu/

Noun

cwalu f

killing, violent death, slaughter

Declension

Declension of cwalu (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cwalu	cwala, cwale
accusative	cwale	cwala, cwale
genitive	cwale	cwala
dative	cwale	cwalum

Derived terms

selfcwalu

Descendants

Middle English: qual

References

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

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