game – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of game

Noun: game
Sg.game
Pl.games; game

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like game

busshel, difference, locuste, grace, ounce, pirie, wyspe, stage, vitaile, manere, couple, cubite, norice, perche, playce, pater noster, vessel, wonder, game, lege, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *gamaną
3. Proto-West Germanic *gaman
4. Old English gamen
5. Middle English game
6. An apocopic form of gamen (“game”), with generalisation of preconsonantal loss of /n/, as in clewe, filme, and mayde.
7. Northern forms with /a/ probably reflect generalisation of the vocalism of gamnes, plural of gamen, where open-syllable lengthening failed to occur.

Verbs referencing "game"

Polish Nouns gem, English Nouns game.

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