hulc
Old English edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Relation to Medieval Latin hulcus, holcas (“a kind of ship”) is uncertain (the Old English may have borrowed from the Latin or vice versa). Compare also Old High German holcho (“a barge, freighter, cargo ship”), Old Norse holkr (“metal tube, ring", later also "barge, cargo ship”). It's possible that the word is originally the same as Old English holc (“a hollow, cavity”). Alternatively, the various senses may represent separate origins that coalesced into a single term.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hulc m
Declension edit
Declension of hulc (strong a-stem)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “HULC”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.