Exanceaster
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
- Exanceaster, Eaxanċeaster, Eaxanceaster, Escanċeaster, Escanceaster
- Eaxeċester, Eaxecester, Eaxanċester, Eaxancester, Exaċester, Exacester, Exeċester, Execester, Exanċester, Exancester, Exċester
- (abbr): Exa, Exe, Eaxnc, Eaxcestr, Eaxa, Eaxc
Etymology edit
From Ex (“River Exe”) + ċeaster (“fortress, fortified town”), in some forms influenced by Latin Isca, both from Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Exanċeaster n
- Exeter (a cathedral city in modern Devon, England)
Declension edit
Declension of Exanceaster (strong ō-stem)
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | Exanċeaster | — |
accusative | Exanċeastre | — |
genitive | Exanċeastre | — |
dative | Exanċeastre | — |
Descendants edit
References edit
- 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 and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Exanċeaster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- Old English compound terms
- Old English terms derived from Latin
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English proper nouns
- Old English neuter nouns
- ang:Cities in Devon, England
- ang:Cities in England
- ang:Places in Devon, England
- ang:Places in England
- Old English ō-stem nouns