fifeldor

Old English

Etymology

From fīfel +‎ dōr, literally “monster or terror-door”.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.fel.doːr/, [ˈfiː.veɫ.doːr]

Noun

fīfeldōr n

epithet of the river Eider, the boundary between Holstein and Schleswig

Declension

Declension of fifeldor (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	fīfeldōr	—
accusative	fīfeldōr	—
genitive	fīfeldōres	—
dative	fīfeldōre	—

Further reading

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “fīfeldōr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
John R. Clark Hall (1916) “fīfeldōr”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan, page 104

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