æþel

• ēþel

From a suffixed form of Proto-Germanic *ōþ-; see *ōþil (“homeland”). Cognate with Old Saxon oðil, Old Frisian ethel, Old High German uodil, Old Norse óðal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæː.θel/, [ˈæː.ðel]

ǣþel m

1. homeland, ancestral territory
2. noble, a person of the ruling class (a personified extension of the first definition)