fifeldor

Old English

Etymology

From fīfel +‎ dōr, literally “monster or terror-door”.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.fel.doːr/, [ˈfiː.veɫ.doːr]

Noun

fīfeldōr n

1. epithet of the river Eider, the boundary between Holstein and Schleswig

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	fīfeldōr	—
accusative	fīfeldōr	—
genitive	fīfeldōres	—
dative	fīfeldōre	—

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fīfeldōr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “fīfeldōr”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 104