hwealf

== Old English == === Alternative forms === hwalf === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *hwalbaz. Cognate with Old High German walbe, Old Norse hvalf (Icelandic hólf). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /xwæ͜ɑlf/, [ʍæ͜ɑɫf] Rhymes: -æ͜ɑlf === Noun === hwealf f vault, arch 10th century, Anonymous, Beowulf, line 576: ==== Declension ==== Strong ō-stem: === Adjective === hwealf arched, vaulted, hollow, concave, bent 10th century, Anonymous, Judith XI 214, Nowell Codex: ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== hwylfan hwealfian === References === John R. Clark Hall (1916), “hwealf”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hwealf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 262 Vladimir Orel (2003), A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197