shoe – English noun declension

English noun forms of shoe

Noun: shoe
Singularshoe
Pluralshoes

Sample Sentences

  • Get your shoes on now, or you'll be late for school.
  • Throw the shoe from behind the line, and try to get it to land circling (a ringer) or touching the far stake.
  • Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
  • The finest gold among them is 100 touch, called Sycee, i. e. pure gold without alloy: so that if a shoe of gold touch 93, then it hath 93 parts of fine gold and 7 parts alloy. [1806, Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel, The Asiatic Annual Register, page 56:]

Nouns inflected like shoe

shoe,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *skōhaz
3. Proto-West Germanic *skōh
4. Old English sċōh
5. Middle English scho
6. English shoe
7. From Middle English scho, sho, from Old English sċōh (“shoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *skōh, from Proto-Germanic *skōhaz (“shoe”), of unclear etymology; possibly a derivation from *skehaną (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Indo-European *skek- (“to move quickly, jump”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English sabatine, sabatoun (“shoe”) from Medieval Latin sabatēnum, sabatum (“shoe, slipper”) (compare Old Occitan sabatō, Spanish zapato (“shoe”), French sabot (“wooden shoe, clog”), Italian ciabatta). The archaic plural shoon is from Middle English shon, from Old English scōn, scōum (“shoes”, dative plural) and scōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural); it is cognate with Scots shuin (“shoes”). See also Scots shae, West Frisian skoech, Low German Schoh, Dutch schoen, German Schuh, Bavarian Schuach, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sko, Tocharian B skāk (“balcony”). See: Middle English Nouns 'scho', Dutch Nouns 'schoen', German Nouns 'Schuh'.

Verbs referencing "shoe"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sko, German Nouns Schuh, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns skór'e.