Elig

Old English

Etymology

Unknown. Often derived in folk etymologies from ǣl (“eel”).

Proper noun

Ēlīg

1. Ely, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire

Declension

The dative form is usually endingless, being identical to the nominative singular as Ēlīg.

Declension of Elig (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Ēlīg	Ēlīga, Ēlīge
accusative	Ēlīge	Ēlīga, Ēlīge
genitive	Ēlīge	Ēlīga
dative	Ēlīge	Ēlīgum

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Élíg”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.