wrecnes

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwrek.nes/

Noun

wrecnes f

1. vengeance

Declension

Declension of wrecnes (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	wrecnes	wrecnessa, wrecnesse
accusative	wrecnesse	wrecnessa, wrecnesse
genitive	wrecnesse	wrecnessa
dative	wrecnesse	wrecnessum

Synonyms

• fǣhþ f (“feud, hostility, enmity, vengeance”)
• wrǣc f (“vengeance”)

References

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