middle – English noun declension

English noun forms of middle

Noun: middle
Singularmiddle
Pluralmiddles

Sample Sentences

  • The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
  • I woke up in the middle of the night.
  • In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
  • Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle. [2012, Caroline Moore, Fasting In A Fast World:]
  • As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.
  • ‘Did you see the Spec. had a middle on “Rural Tenacities” last week. That was all Huckley.’ [1913 (date written), Rudyard Kipling, “The Village that Voted the Earth was Flat”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 171:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English myddel, middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid. See: Middle English Nouns 'myddel', Old English Nouns 'middel', Dutch Nouns 'middel', German Nouns 'mittel', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'middel', Icelandic Nouns 'meðal', Swedish Nouns 'medel'.

Verbs referencing "middle"

German Nouns Mittel, Dutch Nouns middel, Latvian Nouns mežs, Russian Nouns межа.