barm – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of barm

Noun: barm
Sg.barm
Pl.barmes

Genitive

Dative

Sg.barme

Sample Sentences

  • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. (Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales)
  • Late 14th century: … kisse hire child er that it deyde / And in hir barm this litel child she leyde. (Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, Canterbury Tales)

Nouns inflected like barm

ground, market, kayser, barm, halk, oven,

Etymology

From Old English bearm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz. See: Old English Nouns 'bearm'.

Verbs referencing "barm"

English Nouns barm.

Translations