den – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of den

Noun: den
Sg.den
Pl.dennes; denes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • and iheſus ſeide to him / foxis han dennes ⁊ bꝛiddis of heuene han neeſtis.· but mannes ſone haþ not where he ſchal reſte his heed (But Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens and the birds up above have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere he can rest his head.") [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 8:20, folio 3, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like den

den,

Etymology

From Old English denn, from Proto-West Germanic *dani. Forms with a final vowel are probably generalised datives. See: Old English Nouns 'denn'.

Verbs referencing "den"

English Nouns den, English Nouns dean.

Translations