plæce – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of plæce

Noun: plæce
Gender:

Nominative

Singularplæċe
Pluralplæċan

Genitive

Singularplæċan
Pluralplæċena

Dative

Singularplæċan
Pluralplæċum

Accusative

Singularplæċan
Pluralplæċan

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like plæce

sierce, birce, plæce, bierce, hlence,

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa). This must have been borrowed into early Old English after Anglo-Frisian brightening, but before i-mutation as *platiǣ, cf. Læden, mæġester. The Aldredian stem plæċ-, and the Rushworth Gospel gloss plæ(t)s-, illustrate a change in later Old English whereby the sequence -tj- began to be conflated with -ċċ-, cf. ortġeard, fetian; thus serving as evidence that both palatalization, and later affrication, did likely also occur in Old Northumbrian. See: Latin Nouns 'platea', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πλατεῖα'.

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