Old English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From æþele (noble) +‎ -cund (born).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈæ.θelˌkund/, [ˈæ.ðelˌkund]

Adjective edit

æþelcund[1][2]

  1. of noble birth, noble

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “æðel-cund”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ John R. Clark Hall (1916) “æþelcund”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan