leap – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of leap

Noun: leap
Gender:

Nominative

Singularlēap
Plurallēapas

Genitive

Singularlēapes
Plurallēapa

Dative

Singularlēape
Plurallēapum

Accusative

Singularlēap
Plurallēapas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like leap

leafwyrm, leactric, leoþcræft, leodstefn, leof, leap, leoþsang,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *laup, from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lewb- (“to peel, break off, damage”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-, *lewH- (“to cut, divide, separate, release”). Cognate with Old Frisian lēpen (“vessel, grain measure”), Middle Low German lôp and lö̂pen (“measuring vessel, small bushel, grain measure”), Old Norse laupr (“basket”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'laupr'.

Verbs referencing "leap"

Dutch Nouns lopen, Middle English Nouns lep.

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