atheling
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of atheling
First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English ætheling (cognate with Old High German ediling, adalung, Old Saxon ethiling ), equivalent to æthel(u) “noble family” (cognate with Old High German adoul, German Adel, Old Saxon athal(i), Old Norse athal “nature”; akin to Tocharian atäl “man”) + -ing noun suffix; see -ing 3
Example Sentences
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“She said that she would give it me were the youth and the maiden of the forest the same as the atheling and his sister,” said Ethelred, merrily.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
"Is he Thorkel, or Thorkel's man?" answered the atheling, "for if he be, I will not see him."
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
“Nay, brother,” spoke Ethelfleda, who was of sterner mold than the atheling, “if the maiden hath promised it, the word should be kept.”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
"I have three chiefs in my mind who can match these," said our atheling.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Elswitha I have not seen, for she married the king—he was the atheling then—before I was old enough to remember.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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