faunt – Middle English noun declension

Noun: faunt

Sg.	faunt
Pl.	fauntes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like faunt

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

Apparently borrowed from Anglo-Norman faunt, an apheretic form of or a back-formation from enfaunt, from Latin īnfāns, īnfantem; thus a doublet of infaunt. First attested in c. 1325. See: Latin Nouns 'īnfāns'.

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