cunte – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of cunte

Noun: cunte
Sg.cunte

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Þe maide þat ȝeuit hirſilf alle. / Oþir to fre man, oþir to þralle. / Ar ringe be ſet an honde. / And pleiit with þe croke and wiþ þe balle. / And mekit gret þat erſt was ſmalle. / Þe wedding got to ſconde. / Ȝeue þi cunte to cunni[n]g / and craue affetir weddin[g] quod hendi[ng]. (The woman that gives herself totally / either to a freeman or a serf / before a ring is set on her hand / and who plays with the twig and berries / and makes great that once was small / [Her] wedding becomes shameful. / "Give your vagina with cunning / and make your requests after the wedding" said Hending.) [a. 1300, Hending, The Proverbs of Hending, stanza 42, page 479v-r:]

Nouns inflected like cunte

syment, cristened, savete, savyne, sandal, whelere, scuage, scluse, sclise, sclave, schyft, schuit, schite, schort, schold, schern, smothe, smethe, smerte, slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old English *cunte, from Proto-West Germanic *kuntā, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. See: Old English Nouns '*cunte'.

Verbs referencing "cunte"

English Nouns cunt.

Translations