mæce – Old English noun declension

Noun: mæce
Gender:

Nominative

Singular	mǣċe
Plural	mǣċas

Genitive

Singular	mǣċes
Plural	mǣċa

Dative

Singular	mǣċe
Plural	mǣċum

Accusative

Singular	mǣċe
Plural	mǣċas

Sample Sentences

…hē on merġenne mēċes eċġum ġētan wolde sum on galgtrēowum fēðan tō gamene. (…he in the morning wished to kill, for mirth, some of the army on gallows trees by edges of a sword.) [c. 700–1000, Beowulf:]

Nouns inflected like mæce

læce, mæce,

Etymology

1. From Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz. Cognate with Old Saxon māki, Old Norse mækir, and Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (mēkeis).
2. Borrowed into Slavic: see e.g. Russian меч (meč), Serbo-Croatian mȁč, Czech, Slovak and Slovene meč, Polish miecz. See: Old Norse Nouns 'mækir', Gothic Nouns '𐌼𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃', Russian Nouns 'меч', Polish Nouns 'miecz'.