Part of speech: noun
Gender: feminine
Stem: -ō-
hell
Etymology
[← Prot-Germ *haljō; OE hell (Mod E hell); O Fris helle, hille; O Sax hell, hellia; Dt hel; OHG hella (Mod G Hölle); Icel hel "nether world, abode of the dead" (also Hel in Scand mythology the name of Loki's daughter who rules over the evil dead in Niflheim, the lowest of all worlds)
Concordance
halja - Acc, Voc, sing - Matth. XI, 23; Luk. X, 15; Cor. I, XV, 55
haljai - Dat, sing - Luk. XVI, 23
haljai - Dat, sing - Luk. XVI, 23
Paradigm
1.1.2. (a)
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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