be – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of be

Noun: be
Sg.be
Pl.ben; bes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Right ſo as bees / out swarmen from an hyue / Out of the deueles ers / ther gonne dryue / Twenty thouſand freres / on a route / And thurgh oute helle / swarmeden aboute […] (Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout Hell they swarmed all about […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Somnours Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 79, recto:]

Nouns inflected like be

sterneleme, fo, be, ampte, ere,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *bijǭ
4. Proto-West Germanic *bijā
5. Old English bēo
6. Middle English be
7. Inherited from Old English bēo, from Proto-West Germanic *bijā, from Proto-Germanic *bijō (“bee”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”).

Verbs referencing "be"

English Nouns bee.

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