cwalu

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kwalu, from Proto-Germanic *kwalō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɑ.lu/

Noun

cwalu f

1. killing, violent death, slaughter

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	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^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.