sælig
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sēlīgaz. Cognate with Old Saxon sālig, Old High German sālig (“blessed, fortunate”); compare with Dutch zalig (“blessed”), German selig (“blessed, overjoyed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsæːlij/
Adjective
sǣliġ
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural | case | singular | plural | ||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | sǣliġa | sǣliġe | sǣliġe | sǣliġan | nom. | sǣliġ | sǣliġ | sǣliġu | sǣliġe | sǣliġu, -e | sǣliġa, -e | ||
| accusative | sǣliġan | sǣliġe | sǣliġan | acc. | sǣliġne | sǣliġ | sǣliġe | sǣliġe | sǣliġu, -e | sǣliġa, -e | |||
| genitive | sǣliġan | sǣliġra, sǣliġena | gen. | sǣliġes | sǣliġes | sǣliġre | sǣliġra | ||||||
| dative | sǣliġan | sǣliġum | dat. | sǣliġum | sǣliġum | sǣliġre | sǣliġum | ||||||
| instrumental | sǣliġe | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: silly
Further reading
- 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", sælig et al.
- Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), sælig
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