Gleawceaster
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Proper noun
Glēawċeaster f
- Gloucester
- variously c. 893 – 12th century CE, entry for year 940, 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 209:
- An. DCCCCXL Hēr Æþelstān cyning forþferde on Glēaweċestre...⁊ Æþelstān cyning ricsode XIIII ġēar ⁊ tēon wucan.
- Year 940 In this year King Athelstan died in Gloucester...he reigned for 14 years and ten weeks.
Declension
Strong ō-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Glēawċeaster | — |
| accusative | Glēawċeastre | — |
| genitive | Glēawċeastre | — |
| dative | Glēawċeastre | — |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: Glowchestre
- English: Gloucester
Further reading
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Glēawċeaster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (in Old English), second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.