guþsweord
Old English
Etymology
From gūþ (“battle”) + sweord (“sword”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡuːθˌswe͜ord/, [ˈɡuːθˌswe͜orˠd]
Noun
gūþsweord n
- (poetic) a sword
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gúþ-sweord”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.