bæl

See also: bael, Appendix:Variations of "bal", and Appendix:Variations of "bel"

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bāl, from Proto-Germanic *bēlą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-. Cognate with Old Norse bál (whence Icelandic bál (“a fire; a conflagration”), Danish bål (“fire, bonfire, pyre”), Norwegian bål and Swedish bål (“pyre, bonfire”)). Further Indo-European cognates include Sanskrit भाल (bhāla, “splendour”), Ancient Greek φαλός (phalós, “white”) and Old Armenian բալ (bal, “fog”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bæːl/

Noun

bǣl n (nominative plural bǣl)

  1. funeral pyre, bonfire
  2. fire, flame, blaze

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative bǣl bǣl
accusative bǣl bǣl
genitive bǣles bǣla
dative bǣle bǣlum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: bale (possibly from Old Norse)
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