eorþling

Old English

Alternative forms

irþling, yrþling

Etymology

From eorþe +‎ -ling.

Noun

eorþling m

husbandman, farmer, ploughman.
(literally) one of the earth.
a cuckoo or lapwing.

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Middle English: *erthling, erdling
- English: earthling, Earthling

References

irþling in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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