selfcwala

• sylfcwala

self- +‎ cwalu

• IPA^(key): /ˈselfˌkwɑ.lɑ/, [ˈseɫfˌkwɑ.lɑ]

selfcwala m

1. someone who commits suicide
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Eight Vices and Twelve Abuses"

     Ēaðe mæġ sē mann findan hū hē hine selfne āmierre, ac wē sċulon witan þæt nān selfcwala, þæt is āgenslaga, ne becymþ tō Godes rīċe.

     Anyone can easily find a way to destroy themselves, but we should know that no suicide, that is [synonym], makes it into the Kingdom of God.

Weak:

• āgenslaga
• selfbana
• selfmyrþere

• selfcwalu

• Middle English: seolf-cwale, seolf cwale

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “self-cwala”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.