Defenas

Old English

Etymology

Derived from an early medieval Celtic name for the Dumnonii, a British tribe that once lived in the area. Compare Proto-Brythonic *Düβnėnt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈde.fe.nɑs/, [ˈde.ve.nɑs]

Proper noun

Defenas m pl

  1. Devonians
    • variously c. 893 – 12th century CE, entry for year 823, in Benjamin Thorpe, ed. and transl., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, According to the Several Original Authorities, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, published 1861, page 110:
      An. DCCCXXIII Hēr wæs Wāla ġefeoht ⁊ Defna æt Gafulforda. ⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare ġefeaht Eċġbryht cyning ⁊ Beornwulf cyning on Ellendūne, ⁊ Eċġbryht siġe nam, ⁊ þǣr wæs myċel wæl ġeslæġen.
      Year 823 In this year there was a battle between the Welsh and the Devonians at Gafulford. And in the same year Kings Edgebright and Beornwulf fought at Allington, and Edgebright wtook the victory, and there was great carnage.
  2. Devon

Declension

singular plural
nominative — Defenas
accusative — Defenas
genitive — Defena, Defna
dative — Defenum, Defnum

Derived terms

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