sundorhalga
Old English
Etymology
Compound of sundor (“apart, separate”) + hālga (“holy man”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsun.dorˌxɑːl.ɡɑ/, [ˈsun.dorˌhɑːɫ.ɣɑ]
Noun
sundorhālga m
- Pharisee
- (hapax legomenon) scribe
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
- Þā sunderhālgan and ðā bōceras, þe beciddon þæt Crīst mid þām synfullum mannum hine ġerēordode, wǣron mid twyfealdum ġedwylde befangene...
- The Pharisees and the scribes who complained that Christ took meals with sinful men were possessed with a twofold error...
- Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Declension
Weak:
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sundorhālga | sundorhālgan |
| accusative | sundorhālgan | sundorhālgan |
| genitive | sundorhālgan | sundorhālgena |
| dative | sundorhālgan | sundorhālgum |
References
- Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sundor-hálga”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.