lust – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of lust

Noun: lust
Gender: m

Nominative

Singularlust
Plurallustas

Genitive

Singularlustes
Plurallusta

Dative

Singularluste
Plurallustum

Accusative

Singularlust
Plurallustas

Sample Sentences

  • Him wæs metes micel lust ― he had a craving for food. (Ælfric's Homilies)
  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Woruldcara, and welan, and flǣsċlīċe lustas forsmoriað ðǣs mōdes ðrotan, and ne geðafiað gōdne willan infaran tō his heortan, swilċe hī ðone līflīċan blǣd forðrǣstne ācwellon. Twā wiðerrǣde ðing geðēodde Drihten on ðisum cwyde, þæt sind ymhīdiġnyssa and lustas. (Concern about worldly things, and wealth, and carnal lusts choke the throat of the mind, and do not allow good desires into the heart, as if they killed it by crushing the living fruit. The Lord connected two contrary things in this saying, which are cares and lusts.)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Verbs referencing "lust"

English Nouns lust.

Translations