Word.ws English Dictionary

œthel

œthel is the alternative spelling of ethel.

Meaning of ethel

Noun

ethel

  1. The rune ᛟ.
  2. The name of the Latin script letter Œ/œ.

See all 14 meanings of ethel

Forms of œthel

pluralœthels

Origin of œthel

The Old English rune ᛟ was sometimes transcribed with the œ ligature.

Questions about œthel

What is œthel the alternative spelling of?
Œthel is the alternative spelling of ethel.

Words near œthel in the dictionary

  1. œstruate
  2. œstruates
  3. œstrus
  4. œstruses
  5. œsypum
  6. œthel
  7. œthels
  8. Œting
  9. Œuilly
  10. œuvre
  11. œuvres

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: œthel (page history and authors); ethel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “œthel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/%C5%93thel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.