hicel

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Old English

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Etymology

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Apparently equivalent to hice +‎ -el.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈxi.kel/, [ˈhi.kel]

Noun

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hicel m

  1. woodpecker

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: hykwale, heghwalle, hygh-whele, eywal (in some forms, possibly merged with Old English higera)

References

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Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hicel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.