cyf – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of cyf

Noun: cyf
Gender:

Nominative

Singularcȳf
Pluralcȳfe; cȳfa

Genitive

Singularcȳfe
Pluralcȳfa

Dative

Singularcȳfe
Pluralcȳfum

Accusative

Singularcȳf; cȳfe
Pluralcȳfe; cȳfa

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like cyf

cyf,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kūbiju, from Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, perhaps from Latin cūpa. Possibly a doublet of cuppe and cȳpe. Alternatively, perhaps a clipping of Old English cȳfel. See: Latin Nouns 'cūpa', Old English Nouns 'cȳfel'.

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