flæschus
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“slaughterhouse, shambles”), equivalent to flǣsċ (“flesh”) + hūs (“house”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflæːʃ.xuːs/, [ˈflæːʃ.huːs]
Noun
flǣsċhūs n
- a fleshhouse (glosses Latin carnālis (“carnāle”)); meat shop
Declension
Strong a-stem:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | flǣsċhūs | flǣsċhūs |
| accusative | flǣsċhūs | flǣsċhūs |
| genitive | flǣsċhūses | flǣsċhūsa |
| dative | flǣsċhūse | flǣsċhūsum |
Descendants
- Middle English: fleshusse
- English: fleshhouse
- Scots: flesch-hous, fleschous
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “flǽsc-hús”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.