netele

Old English

Alternative forms

• netle

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *natilā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈne.te.le/

Noun

netele f

1. nettle

Declension

Weak n-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	netele	netelan
accusative	netelan	netelan
genitive	netelan	netelena
dative	netelan	netelum

Descendants

• Middle English: netle, netele, nettle
  • English: nettle
  • Yola: nettles (plural)

Further reading

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