glas – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of glas

Noun: glas
Sg.glas
Pl.glasses

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was /Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas[…] (Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Her nose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass […]) [a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 151–152:]

Nouns inflected like glas

stiffenes, las, trespas, compas, cipres, glas, ches,

Etymology

Inherited from Old English glæs, from Proto-West Germanic *glas, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. See: Old English Nouns 'glæs', Old English Nouns 'glæs'.

Verbs referencing "glas"

English Nouns glass.

Translations