hysecild

Noun

 * 1) male child
 * 2) * c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Innocents"
 * "ang"

- Sende ða his cwelleras, and ofsloh ealle ða hysecild, þe wǽron on þære byrig Bethleem, and on eallum hyre gemærum, fram twywintrum cilde to anre nihte, be ðære tide þe hé geaxode æt ðam tungel-witegum.

Usage notes

 * Though is poetic, hyseċild is a frequent prose word, often occurring alongside . This makes it one of a small class of prose compounds that have a poetic word as a component. Other examples include  (“bridegroom”),  (“war banner”),  (“mullet”),  (“virginity”),  (“auger”),  (“paradise”),  (“boss of a shield”),  (“toothpick”), and  (“pleasant”). Also the obscured compound  ← earlier . One interpretation of these compounds is that they were already very old, reaching back to a time when both components were commonplace in ordinary speech.

Declension

 * inherited declension


 * a-stem declension