Exanceaster

Old English

Alternative forms

• Exanceaster, Eaxanċeaster, Eaxanceaster, Escanċeaster, Escanceaster
• Eaxeċester, Eaxecester, Eaxanċester, Eaxancester, Exaċester, Exacester, Exeċester, Execester, Exanċester, Exancester, Exċester
• Exa, Exe, Eaxnc, Eaxcestr, Eaxa, Eaxc (abbreviations)

Etymology

From Ex (“River Exe”) +‎ ċeaster (“fortress, fortified town”), in some forms influenced by Latin Isca, both from Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈek.sɑnˌt͡ʃæ͜ɑs.ter/

Proper noun

Exanċeaster n

1. Exeter (a cathedral city in modern Devon, England)

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	Exanċeaster	—
accusative	Exanċeastre	—
genitive	Exanċeastre	—
dative	Exanċeastre	—

Descendants

• Middle English: Exchestre
  • English: Exeter

Further reading

• Alfred Anscombe (1912), "The Names of Old-English Mint-Towns: Their Original Form and Meaning and Their Epigraphical Corruption", in the British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 9, pp. 113–114.
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Exanċeaster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.