dongeoun – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of dongeoun

Noun: dongeoun
Sg.dongeoun

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • The eorthe closede hit self aȝeyn, And the dungoun was for-dit. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 1325 – 1390, A disputacion bytwene þe bodi and þe soule (Vernon manuscript)]

Nouns inflected like dongeoun

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

Borrowed from Old French donjon (“main residence of a castle, fortified tower”). The sense "underground cell below the keep of a castle", first attested in Anglo-Norman (13th c.) and not in other varieties of Old French, may have been influenced by the etymologically unrelated Old English dung (“underground prison cell”). An early manuscript (c1300) of the Middle English poem A disputacion bytwene þe bodi and þe soule uses the word "donge" in the same line, cited below, where the later Vernon manuscript (c. 1380-1400) uses the word "dungoun" ("Þe erþe hemsulf it lek aȝeyn, Anon þe donge it was fordit").

Verbs referencing "dongeoun"

English Nouns dungeon.

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