light – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of light

Noun: light
Sg.light
Pl.lightes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like light

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

1. From Old English lēoht (“light, daylight; power of vision; luminary; world”), from Proto-West Germanic *leuht, from Proto-Germanic *leuhtą (“light”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewktom, from the root *lewk- (“light”).
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
4. Proto-Indo-European *lewk-to-s
5. Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *leuht
7. Old English lēoht
8. Middle English light

Verbs referencing "light"

English Nouns light.

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