Old English edit

Etymology edit

From *hīw (marriage) +‎ -cund (born). The former from Proto-Germanic *hīwą.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈxiːwˌkund/, [ˈhiːwˌkund]

Adjective edit

hīwcund[1][2]

  1. domestic

Declension edit

References edit

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