bite – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of bite

Noun: bite
Sg.bite
Pl.bites

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like bite

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. A conflation of two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to split”):
2. * Old English bite, from Proto-West Germanic *biti.
3. * Old English bita, from Proto-West Germanic *bitō, from Proto-Germanic *bitô. See: Old English Nouns 'bite', Old English Nouns 'bita'.

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