eye – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of eye

Noun: eye
Sg.eye
Pl.eyen; eynen

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • ⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .· (And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, folio 117, verso; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
  • So mote I brouke wel myne eyen tweye / Saue ye I herde neuere man so synge. (So might I have used well my two eyes / But for you, I've heard no man sing like that.) [c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Nun's Priest's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3168–3169:]
  • Þe feld hath eyen ⁊ þe wode hath eres. (The field has eyes and the wood has ears.)
  • blake eyen, greye eyen, grene eyen (brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes)
  • haven no eye for nought

Nouns inflected like eye

eye,

Etymology

Inherited from Old English ēage, ēge, from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs. See: Old English Nouns 'ēage', Old English Nouns 'ēage'.

Verbs referencing "eye"

English Nouns awe.

Translations