Angelcynn
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑn.ɡelˌkynn/, [ˈɑŋ.ɡelˌkyn]
Proper noun
Angelcynn n
- the Anglo-Saxon people; the English
- England
- Ġeboren iċ wæs on Angelcynne, ac iċ forlēas mīnne mæġeþhād on Sċottum.
- I was born in England, but I lost my virginity in Scotland.
- p. 1154, “AD 1008”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636), Peterborough, folio 43, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
- Her bebead ſe cyng þet man ſceolde ofer eall angel cynn ſcipu feaſtlice ƿircean.
- That year, the king ordered that ships should be built unremittingly all over England.
Declension
Declension of Angelcynn (strong a-stem)
Synonyms
- (England): Engla land
- (the English): Engle
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