scamu – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of scamu

Noun: scamu
Gender:

Nominative

Singularsċamu
Pluralsċama; sċame

Genitive

Singularsċame
Pluralsċama

Dative

Singularsċame
Pluralsċamum

Accusative

Singularsċame
Pluralsċama; sċame

Sample Sentences

  • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
  • Ġenōh lange ic wæs on þām bysmore and on þǣre sceame, þe hȳ mē on ġebrōhton;... (Long enough have I been in the reproach and shame which they brought on me;...)

Nouns inflected like scamu

scearu, scealu, sceamu, scamu, scinu, scolu,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skamu, from Proto-Germanic *skamō. Cognate with Old Frisian skome, Old Saxon skama, Old Dutch skama, Old High German scama, Old Norse skǫmm. See: Old Norse Nouns 'skǫmm'.

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