myschef – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of myschef

Noun: myschef
Sg.myschef
Pl.myscheves; myschefes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Sir, quod this frere, an odious meschief, / This day bityd is to myn ordre and me. ("Sir", said this friar, an odious misfortune / Has afflicted my order and me today.) [a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 2190 -2191:]
  • Allas, I se a serpent or a theef, / That many a trewe man hath doon mescheef. (Now, I see a serpent or a thief, / That to many a true person has done injury.) [a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1324–1325:]

Nouns inflected like myschef

lef, rof, schef, myschef, mastyf, thef, knyf,

Etymology

From Old French meschief, from meschever; it was often interpreted as mys- + chef, which it ultimately is equivalent to.

Verbs referencing "myschef"

English Nouns mischief.

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