mæw – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of mæw

Noun: mæw
Gender:

Nominative

Singularmǣw
Pluralmǣwas

Genitive

Singularmǣwes
Pluralmǣwa

Dative

Singularmǣwe
Pluralmǣwum

Accusative

Singularmǣw
Pluralmǣwas

Sample Sentences

  • On gōdne dæġ ic ġefō crabban and telle mǣwas. (On a good day, I catch crabs and count seagulls.)

Nouns inflected like mæw

mæw, bræw,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *maiwiz, a byform of Proto-Germanic *maiwaz. Cognate with West Frisian meau, miuw, Old Saxon mēu (Middle Low German meve, from which German Möwe), Dutch meeuw, Old Norse már, mór. See: German Nouns 'Möwe', Dutch Nouns 'meeuw', Old Norse Nouns 'már'.

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