Part of speech: noun
Gender: feminine
Stem: -ō-?
braid, plait, tress (or flahtō -n-)
Etymology
[← Prot-Germ *flahtō(n); OE fleohta “fence, hurdle”; Dt vlecht “braid, plait, tress”; OHG flehta “braid” (Mod G Flechte); Icel flétta “braid, plait” ← Indo-Europ *pleḱ-; Sanskr praśna- “wickerwork basket”; Anc Gr πλόκαμος “braid”; Lat plectere v “to plait, braid”; O Slav плести v “to weave, plait” (Russ плести)]
Concordance
flahtom - Dat, pl - Tim. I, II, 9
Paradigm
1.1.2. (a)
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nouns, -ō- stem, feminine gender
giba
(gift) |
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| singular | plural | |
| nominative | giba | gibōs |
| genitive | gibōs | gibō |
| dative | gibai | gibōm |
| accusative | giba | gibōs |
The declension of several nouns ending in -wa (frijaþwa (love); triggwa (faithfulness; covenant); bandwa (sign); fijaþwa (hatred, enmity); ubizwa (porch, portico); wulwa (robbery)) is identical to that of [-o-] stem nouns. These nouns are sometimes sub-categorized as the [-wo-] stem subtype of the [-o-] stem declension of Gothic nouns.
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