beam – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of beam

Noun: beam
Gender:

Nominative

Singularbēam
Pluralbēamas

Genitive

Singularbēames
Pluralbēama

Dative

Singularbēame
Pluralbēamum

Accusative

Singularbēam
Pluralbēamas

Sample Sentences

  • Laws of King Ine
  • Ðonne mon bēam on wuda forbǣrne, ⁊ weorðe yppe on þone ðe hit dȳde, ġielde hē fulwīte: ġeselle LX sċill., forþamþe fȳr bið þēof. (If a man burns up a tree in a forest, and it becomes known who did it, he shall pay a full fine: he shall pay sixty shillings, for fire is a thief.)
  • Codex Vercillensis
  • Wæs sē bēam bōcstafum āwriten. (The tree was inscribed with letters.)

Nouns inflected like beam

beogang, beag, beam, beaw, beod, beor,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baum.

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