bok – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of bok

Noun: bok
Sg.bok
Pl.bokes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • ⁊ I took þe book of þe aũgels hond ⁊ deuourıde ıt .· ⁊ ıt was ĩ my mouþ as ſwete as hony / ⁊ whãne I hadde deuorıde ıt .· my wombe was bıttır […] (And I took the document from the angel's hand and consumed it; it seemed sweet like honey in my mouth, but when I'd eaten it, my stomach felt bitter.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 10:10, folio 120, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
  • Þiſſ boc ıſſ nẽ̃nedd. orͬmulũ⹎ forͬþı ꝥ orͬm ıtt ƿrohhte⹎ ⁊ ıtt ıſſ ƿrohͪt off quaþþrıꟑan. off ꟑoddſpellbokeſſ foƿƿre. (This book is called the "Ormulum" since Orm made it. It's made out of a quadriga; out of the four Gospels […]) [c. 1180, Orͬm, “[Preface]”, in Orͬmulum (Bodleian MS. Junius 1), Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire, folio 9, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]
  • The book of þe generacıoū of ıhū criſt⹎ þe ſone of dauiþ þe ſone of abꝛaham (The book of the ancestry of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 1:1, folio 1, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
  • I ꝑrceyued of þe power. þat Peter hadde to kepe / To bynden and vnbynden. as þe book telleþ (I comprehended the power that Peter had to maintain: / to lock and unlock, as the [Good] Book says […]) [c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 2, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:]

Nouns inflected like bok

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old English bōc, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. See: Old English Nouns 'bōc'.

Verbs referencing "bok"

English Nouns book.

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