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:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | Exanċeaster | — |
accusative | Exanċeastre | — |
genitive | Exanċeastre | — |
dative | Exanċeastre | — |
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.