breost – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of breost

Noun: breost
Gender:

Nominative

Singularbrēost
Pluralbrēost; brēosta; brēoste

Genitive

Singularbrēostes; brēoste
Pluralbrēosta

Dative

Singularbrēoste
Pluralbrēostum

Accusative

Singularbrēost; brēoste
Pluralbrēost; brēosta; brēoste

Sample Sentences

  • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 13, verse 25 (Certainly when he leaned over the Healer's (Jesus') breasts, he said to him, Lord, who is he?)
  • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology
  • Herodes hēt tīon þā ċild of hira mōdor brēostum ond bōsmum, ond þonne man þā ċild cwealde, þonne spiwon hīe þā meoloc ǣr þæt blōd. (Herod ordered that the children be torn from their mothers' breasts and bosoms, and when they were killed they spat out the milk before the blood.)

Nouns inflected like breost

breost,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Cognate with Old Frisian briāst, Old Saxon briost, Old Norse brjóst. See: Old Norse Nouns 'brjóst'.

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