stenc – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of stenc

Noun: stenc
Gender:

Nominative

Singularstenċ
Pluralstenċas

Genitive

Singularstenċes
Pluralstenċa

Dative

Singularstenċe
Pluralstenċum

Accusative

Singularstenċ
Pluralstenċas

Sample Sentences

  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Þā besēah Martinus wið þǣs sċeoccan lēoht, ġemyndiġ on mōde hū sē Metoda Drihten cwæð on his godspelle þe his godcundan tōcyme, and cwæð tō ðām lēasan mid ġelǣredum mūðe, "Ne sǣde ūre Hǣlend þæt hē swā wolde bēon mid purpuran gehīwod, oððe mid helme scīnende, þonne hē eft cōme mid engla ðrymme." Đā fordwān sē deofol drēoriġ him fram, and sēo stōw ðā stanc mid ormǣtum stenċe, æfter andwerdnysse þǣs eġeslīċan gāstes. (Then Martinus beheld the demon's light, mindful of what the Lord God said in his gospel about his divine coming, and said to the false one with learned mouth, "Our Savior did not say that he would be habited in purple, or that he would have a shining crown, when he came again with a host of angels." Then the sad devil disappeared, and the place stank with a powerful stench after the presence of the horrible spirit.)

Nouns inflected like stenc

merefisc, wyrtdrenc, morgendrenc, alordrenc, medudrync, drænc, drync, drenc, mersc, wrenc, wierc, stenc, goldfinc, ropwærc, merisc, finc, hilc, hylc, næsc, wærc, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stankwiz, whence also Old High German stank.

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