lathe – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of lathe

Noun: lathe
Sg.lathe
Pl.lathes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • By Goddes herte, he sal nat scape us bathe!
  • Why ne had thow pit the capul in the lathe! (By God’s heart, he will not escape us both! Why didn’t you put the horse in the barn!) [c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reeve’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:]

Nouns inflected like lathe

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Norse hlað (“pile, heap”). More at English, Etymology 3, above.

Verbs referencing "lathe"

English Nouns laith.

Translations