cheste – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of cheste

Noun: cheste
Sg.cheste
Pl.chestes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres / With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun. [c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:]

Nouns inflected like cheste

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. From Old English ċēast, extension of ċēas (“quarrel, strife”), from Proto-West Germanic *kausu, from Latin causa, from Old Latin caussa.
2. The AB language form chast reflects a shift of stress to the second element of Old English /æ͜ɑː/; later West Midland chost is a continuation of this form with the usual non-Northern raising of the /ɑː/ resulting from the stress-shift. See: Latin Nouns 'causa'.

Verbs referencing "cheste"

English Nouns chest.

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