feldoxa

Old English

Etymology

From feld (“field”) +‎ oxa (“ox”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeldˌok.sɑ/, [ˈfeɫdˌok.sɑ]

Noun

feldoxa m

1. an ox kept in a pasture
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Him becōmon ēac swā miċele welan tō handa, þæt his bīġleofa wæs ælċe dæġ mid his hīrede þrittiġ mittan clǣnes melowes, and sixtiġ mittan ōðres melowes, twelf fætte oxan, and twēntiġ feldoxan, hundtēontiġ weðera, buton huntoðe and fugoloðe and ġemæstra fugela.

     And so much wealth came into his hands that every day he and his household consumed thirty mittas of clean meal, sixty mittas of other meal, twelve fat oxen, twenty field-oxen, and one hundred wethers, not counting the sustenance from hunting, fowling, or fattened birds.

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	feldoxa	feldoxan
accusative	feldoxan	feldoxan
genitive	feldoxan	feldoxena
dative	feldoxan	feldoxum

References

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