scealc
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *skalk, from Proto-Germanic *skalkaz. Cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌺𐍃 (skalks, “slave, servant”) and Old High German skalk (“serf”).
Noun
editsċealc m
Declension
editDeclension of sċealc (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
edit- ambehtsċealc m (“official servant”)
- bēorsċealc m (“beer-servant, butler”)
- freoþosċealc m (“minister of peace”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sċealc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.