sæccing

Old English

Etymology

sæcc (“sack, sacking”) +‎ -ing

Noun

sæċċing f[1]

  1. sacking, sackcloth[2]

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

singular plural
nominative sæċċing sæċċinga, sæċċinge
accusative sæċċinge sæċċinga, sæċċinge
genitive sæċċinge sæċċinga
dative sæċċinge sæċċingum

Descendants

  • English: sacking

References

  1. ^ Kitson, Peter (1990), “On old English nouns of more than one gender”, in English Studies, volume 71, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 217: “Sæccing 'sacking, pallet' is called by the dictionaries masculine (on the evidence of a dative plural!) but A -e in Berks S503/S317 shows it to be f. (as the majority of nouns in -ing are).”
  2. ^ Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sæċċing”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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