wiffeax

Old English

Etymology

Compound of wif (“woman”) +‎ feax (“hair of the head”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiːf.fæ͜ɑks/

Noun

wīffeax n

1. hair (of a woman)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	wīffeax	wīffeax
accusative	wīffeax	wīffeax
genitive	wīffeaxes	wīffeaxa
dative	wīffeaxe	wīffeaxum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wīffeax”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.