See ealh on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhburg"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhflæd"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhfriþ"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhheard"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhhelm"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhhere"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhmund"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhstan"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "Ealhswiþ"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*alh"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *alh",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*alhs",
"t": "protection, building, house, temple, settlement"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-pro",
"2": "ᚨᛚᚺ"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂lek-",
"4": "",
"5": "to close, ward off, protect"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to close, ward off, protect”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀλέξω"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀλέξω (aléxō)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "रक्षति",
"t": "guard, protect"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit रक्षति (rakṣati, “guard, protect”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *alh, from Proto-Germanic *alhs (“protection, building, house, temple, settlement”), cognate to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 (alhs) and Proto-Norse ᚨᛚᚺ (alh).\nAccording to Pokorny (1959:32) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to close, ward off, protect”), i.e. the root of Ancient Greek ἀλέξω (aléxō) and Sanskrit रक्षति (rakṣati, “guard, protect”), though Kroonen (2013:22 s.v. alh-) dismisses this as “arbitrary[.]”",
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{
"form": "ēalas",
"links": [
[
"ēalas",
"ealas"
]
],
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "ealh",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēalas",
"links": [
[
"ēalas",
"ealas#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ealh",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēalas",
"links": [
[
"ēalas",
"ealas#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ēales",
"links": [
[
"ēales",
"eales#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēala",
"links": [
[
"ēala",
"eala#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ēale",
"links": [
[
"ēale",
"eale#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēalum",
"links": [
[
"ēalum",
"ealum#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "alh",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "alhn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "ēalas"
},
"expansion": "ealh m (nominative plural ēalas)",
"name": "ang-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ēal",
"nomsg": "ealh"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ealh",
"2": "ēalas",
"3": "ealh",
"4": "ēalas",
"5": "ēales",
"6": "ēala",
"7": "ēale",
"8": "ēalum",
"num": "",
"title": "",
"type": "strong a-stem"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ealgian"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "ealu"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 59",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "100 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ang",
"name": "Religion",
"orig": "ang:Religion",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "58 42",
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "ang",
"name": "Places of worship",
"orig": "ang:Places of worship",
"parents": [
"Places"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"temple"
],
"id": "en-ealh-ang-noun-Z0JYAb8a",
"links": [
[
"temple",
"temple"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 93",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 59",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 51",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"residence"
],
"id": "en-ealh-ang-noun-E9ALT1Cw",
"links": [
[
"residence",
"residence"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æ͜ɑlx/"
},
{
"ipa": "[æ͜ɑɫx]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æ͜ɑlx"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "tempel"
}
],
"word": "ealh"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English lemmas",
"Old English masculine a-stem nouns",
"Old English masculine nouns",
"Old English nouns",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Old English/æ͜ɑlx",
"Rhymes:Old English/æ͜ɑlx/1 syllable",
"ang:Places of worship",
"ang:Religion"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "Ealhburg"
},
{
"word": "Ealhflæd"
},
{
"word": "Ealhfriþ"
},
{
"word": "Ealhheard"
},
{
"word": "Ealhhelm"
},
{
"word": "Ealhhere"
},
{
"word": "Ealhmund"
},
{
"word": "Ealhstan"
},
{
"word": "Ealhswiþ"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*alh"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *alh",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*alhs",
"t": "protection, building, house, temple, settlement"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *alhs (“protection, building, house, temple, settlement”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 (alhs)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gmq-pro",
"2": "ᚨᛚᚺ"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Norse ᚨᛚᚺ (alh)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂lek-",
"4": "",
"5": "to close, ward off, protect"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to close, ward off, protect”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀλέξω"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀλέξω (aléxō)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sa",
"2": "रक्षति",
"t": "guard, protect"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit रक्षति (rakṣati, “guard, protect”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *alh, from Proto-Germanic *alhs (“protection, building, house, temple, settlement”), cognate to Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 (alhs) and Proto-Norse ᚨᛚᚺ (alh).\nAccording to Pokorny (1959:32) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂lek- (“to close, ward off, protect”), i.e. the root of Ancient Greek ἀλέξω (aléxō) and Sanskrit रक्षति (rakṣati, “guard, protect”), though Kroonen (2013:22 s.v. alh-) dismisses this as “arbitrary[.]”",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ēalas",
"links": [
[
"ēalas",
"ealas"
]
],
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-decl-noun-a-m",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "ealh",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēalas",
"links": [
[
"ēalas",
"ealas#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ealh",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēalas",
"links": [
[
"ēalas",
"ealas#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ēales",
"links": [
[
"ēales",
"eales#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēala",
"links": [
[
"ēala",
"eala#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ēale",
"links": [
[
"ēale",
"eale#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ēalum",
"links": [
[
"ēalum",
"ealum#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "alh",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "alhn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m",
"2": "ēalas"
},
"expansion": "ealh m (nominative plural ēalas)",
"name": "ang-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ēal",
"nomsg": "ealh"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun-a-m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ealh",
"2": "ēalas",
"3": "ealh",
"4": "ēalas",
"5": "ēales",
"6": "ēala",
"7": "ēale",
"8": "ēalum",
"num": "",
"title": "",
"type": "strong a-stem"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "ealgian"
},
{
"word": "ealu"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"temple"
],
"links": [
[
"temple",
"temple"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"residence"
],
"links": [
[
"residence",
"residence"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/æ͜ɑlx/"
},
{
"ipa": "[æ͜ɑɫx]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æ͜ɑlx"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tempel"
}
],
"word": "ealh"
}
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