hwistlere
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom hwistle (“hollow reed”) + -ere (“-er”, suffix forming masculine agent nouns).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithwistlere m
Declension
editStrong ja-stem:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | hwistlere | hwistleras |
accusative | hwistlere | hwistleras |
genitive | hwistleres | hwistlera |
dative | hwistlere | hwistlerum |
Descendants
edit- Middle English: whistlere, whystelare, Wistler, Wyzelere
- English: whistler, Whistler, Wissler
- Scots: quhisilar, quhissillar
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hwistlere”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.