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Old Saxon
Etymology
The ultimate origin is disputed, but one suggestion includes Latin mundus (“world”) + Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną (“to kill, ruin, murder”), thus meaning "destruction of the world."[1] More at Muspilli.
Compare Old High German muspilli, Old Norse Muspell.
Noun
mūdspelli n
- End of the world
Declension
Declension of mūdspelli (neuter ja-stem)
References
- ^ Heliand und Genesis, ed. Otto Behaghel, 8th ed. by Walther Mitzka, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1965