world – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of world

Noun: world
Sg.world
Pl.worldes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • He was in þe woꝛld · ⁊ þe woꝛld was maad bi him .· ⁊ þe woꝛld knew him not (He was in the world and the world was made by him, but the world didn't know him.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 1:10, folio 44, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
  • Ƿa ⁊ ƿunne ı þıs ƿoꝛld al nıs bute peintunge. al nıs bute ſchadeƿe. (Pain and joy in this world aren't anything except for a picture; they're nothing but a mirage.) [c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 65, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 26 January 2018:]
  • Ac hy habbeþ hire heꝛten zuo areꝛed ine god: þet hi ne pꝛayſeþ þe woꝛdle: bote ane botoun. and hi ne dredeþ kyng. ne eꝛl.[…] (But those who have their hearts inspired by God, who don't praise the world('s ways) even a bit and who don't fear kings, earls, […]) [c. 1340, Dan Michel, “Vridom”, in Ayenbite of Inwyt, page 86:]
  • this pluto was the gretteſt theef and the moſte lecherous man of all the world And had with hym a geant named Cerberus . (This Pluto was the greatest thief and the most lecherous being in all the world, and he had a giant called Cerberus with him.) [1471 September 28 [1464], Raoul le ffeure, translated by Willyam Caxton, [T]he recuyell of the hiſtoryes of Troye, [London], translation of Le recueil de histoires de Troye (in Middle French), published c. 1474; republished by H. Oskar Sommer, editorvolume II, London: David Nutt, 1894, →OCLC, leaf 160:]

Nouns inflected like world

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. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
4. Proto-Germanic *weraz
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
7. Proto-Germanic *alaną
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
9. Proto-Germanic *-þiz
10. Proto-Germanic *aldiz
11. Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
12. Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
13. Old English weorold
14. Middle English world
15. Inherited from Old English weorold, from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz. See: Old English Nouns 'weorold', Old English Nouns 'weorold'.

Verbs referencing "world"

English Nouns world.

Translations