bour – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of bour

Noun: bour
Sg.bour
Pl.boures

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • fful sooty was hire bour / and eek hire halle / In which she eet / ful many a sklendre meel (Her room was really sooty, and so was her hall; / there she ate plenty of lean meals) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok / and Hen / Chaũtecler ⁊ Ꝑtelote”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 99, verso:]

Nouns inflected like bour

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 būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Verbs referencing "bour"

English Nouns bower.

Translations