Noun: mayde
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Crıſt was a maẏde / and shapen as a man / And many a Seẏnt sıth / that the woꝛld bıgan / ẏet lẏued theẏ euere / ın ꝑfıt Chaſtıtee (Christ was a virgin and shaped like a man, / like many saints since when the world began, / but they always lived in perfect chastity.) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Prologe of the Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 59, verso:]
Nouns inflected like mayde
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
An apocopic form of mayden, with generalisation of preconsonantal loss of /n/, as in clewe, filme, and game.
Verbs referencing "mayde"
English Nouns
maid.
Translations