bref – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of bref

Noun: bref
Sg.bref
Pl.brefes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like bref

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

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mreǵʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-us
4. Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰusder.
5. Proto-Italic *breɣʷis
6. Latin brevisder.
7. Old French briefbor.
8. Old French brievebor.
9. Middle English bref
10. Borrowed from Old French brief, and its feminine form brieve, from Latin brevis, from Proto-Italic *breɣʷis, from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus. Doublet of mery. See: Latin Nouns 'brevis'.

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