heel – Early Modern English verb conjugation

Early Modern English verb forms of heel

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to heel
Participle: heeled
Gerund: heeling

Transitiviness: intransitive, transitive

Indicative

Present

Iheel
thouheel(e)st
he;she;itheeleth; heels
weheel
yeheel
theyheel

Preterit (Past)

Iheeled
thouheeled(e)st
he;she;itheeled
weheeled
yeheeled
theyheeled

Subjunctive

Present

Iheel
thouheel
he;she;itheel
weheel
yeheel
theyheel

Preterit (Past)

Iheeled
thouheeled(e)st
he;she;itheeled
weheeled
yeheeled
theyheeled

Imperative

thouheel
yeheel

Notes:

  • Compound forms (perfect, pluperfect) are formed either with 'have' or 'be'.
  • Future is formed as in modern English, with auxiliary 'will'.
  • Conditional is formed as in modern English, with auxiliary 'would'.
  • Continuous forms are formed with auxiliary 'be' and gerund. Sometimes the gerund is preceded by 'a-'
  • Plural forms in present lost the '-en' ending, and was used only as a stylistic affectation to indicate rural or old-fashioned speech.