mod – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of mod

Noun: mod
Gender:

Nominative

Singularmōd
Pluralmōd

Genitive

Singularmōdes
Pluralmōda

Dative

Singularmōde
Pluralmōdum

Accusative

Singularmōd
Pluralmōd

Sample Sentences

  • Adrian and Ritheus
  • Mannes mōd biþ on þām hēafde and gǣþ ūt þurh þone mūþ. (A person's mind is in the head and goes out through the mouth.)
  • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Memory of the Saints"
  • Se feorða leahtor is ira þæt is on englisc weamodnyss. Seo deð þæt se man nah his modes ġeweald and macað manslihtas and mycele yfelu. (The fourth sin is Ira, that is in English, Anger; it causeth that a man have no power over his mind, and bringeth about manslaughters and many evils.)
  • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
  • Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe? (If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?)
  • The Anglo-Saxon version of the story of Apollonius of Tyre
  • Đā ġewearþ hit þæt þǣs mǣdenes fōstormōdor intō þām būre ēode, ⁊ ġesēah hī ðār sittan on miċelre ġedrefednesse, ⁊ hire cwæð tō, "Hwiġ eart þū hlæfdiġe swā ġedrefedes mōdes?" (It happened that the girl's foster mother came into the room and saw her sitting full of confusion, and said to her "Lady, why are you so troubled of mind?.")
  • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of our Lord"
  • Uton lufian ure gebroðra on Godes gelaðunge mid swilcum mōde swa swa ðes cyðere þa lufode his fynd. (Let us love our brothers in God's church with such affection as that with which this martyr loved his foes.)

Nouns inflected like mod

þolemod, mod, strod, blod,

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mē-, *mō-. Cognate with Old High German muot (German Mut), Old Saxon mōd, Old Dutch muot (Dutch (ge)moed), Old Norse móðr (“anger, grief”) (Swedish mod), Gothic 𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃 (mōþs, “anger, emotion”). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Ancient Greek μῶθαι (môthai) and Latin mōs. See: German Nouns 'Mut', Old Norse Nouns 'móðr', Swedish Nouns 'mod', Gothic Nouns '𐌼𐍉𐌸𐍃', Latin Nouns 'mōs'.

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