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etheling

etheling is the alternative form of atheling.

Meaning of atheling

Noun

atheling (plural athelings)

  1. (otherwise obsolete) A prince; especially, an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir.
    • […]to substitute as the Confessor′s heir, the Atheling Edward (son of Edmund Ironside), who was then an exile in Hungary. After the atheling′s return from exile, and his very suspicious death in England in 1057, the Norman duke must surely have realized that his chief opponent in England was likely...1966, Dorothy Whitelock, The Norman Conquest, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 60

Forms of etheling

pluralethelings

Questions about etheling

What is etheling the alternative form of?
Etheling is the alternative form of atheling.

Words near etheling in the dictionary

  1. ethel
  2. Ethelbert
  3. ethelborn
  4. Etheldred
  5. Etheldreda
  6. etheling
  7. ethelings
  8. Ethell
  9. Ethells
  10. Ethelred
  11. ethels

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