wælreaf

== Old English == === Alternative forms === walrēaf === Etymology === From wæl (“slaughter, slain”) +‎ rēaf (“plunder, spoils”). Cognate with Old Norse valrauf (“spoils”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwælˌræ͜ɑːf/ === Noun === wælrēaf n spoils of war, spoils taken from the slain === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wæl-reáf”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.