oughten – Middle English noun declension

Noun: oughten

Sg.	oughten
Pl.	∗oughtens

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Godess enngell comm himm to
Onn uhhtenn þær he sleppte. (An angel of God came to him

Before dawn where he slept.) [(Can we date this quote?), The Ormulum, lines 2483-2484:]

Nouns inflected like oughten

soleyn, borwere, squylerie, orisonte, drawebrigge, receptour, oughten, mageste, ewerie, hunteresse, squyler, deye, teye,

Etymology

Inherited from Old English ūhtan, oblique singular and nominative/accusative plural of ūhta, from Proto-West Germanic *ų̄htwā, from Proto-Germanic *unhtwǭ. See: Old English Nouns 'ūhtan', Old English Nouns 'ūhtan'.