Exanceaster

== Old English == === Alternative forms === Exanceaster, Eaxanċeaster, Eaxanceaster, Escanċeaster, Escanceaster Eaxeċester, Eaxecester, Eaxanċester, Eaxancester, Exaċester, Exacester, Exeċester, Execester, Exanċester, Exancester, Exċester Exa, Exe, Eaxnc, Eaxcestr, Eaxa, Eaxc (abbreviations) === Etymology === From Ex (“River Exe”) +‎ ċeaster (“fortress, fortified town”), in some forms influenced by Latin Isca, both from Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈek.sɑnˌt͡ʃæ͜ɑs.ter/ === Proper noun === Exanċeaster n Exeter (a cathedral city in modern Devon, England) ==== Declension ==== Strong ō-stem: ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: Exchestre English: Exeter === References === Alfred Anscombe (1912), "The Names of Old-English Mint-Towns: Their Original Form and Meaning and Their Epigraphical Corruption", in the British Numismatic Journal, Vol. 9, pp. 113–114. Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Exanċeaster”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.