sawolhus

Old English

Alternative forms

sāwelhūs

Etymology

From sāwol +‎ hūs.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.wolˌxuːs/, [ˈsɑː.wolˌhuːs]

Noun

sāwolhūs n

(poetic) the body

Declension

Declension of sawolhus (strong-a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	sāwolhūs	sāwolhūs
accusative	sāwolhūs	sāwolhūs
genitive	sāwolhūses	sāwolhūsa
dative	sāwolhūse	sāwolhūsum

Synonyms

bānhūs (literally “bone house”)
bodiġ
feorhhūs (literally “spirit house”)
hrǣw
hrif
līchama (normal prose term)

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “SĀWELHŪS”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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