erl – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of erl

Noun: erl
Sg.erl
Pl.erles; erlen

Genitive

Sg.erles
Pl.erles; erlene

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • […] ffoꝛ he hadde in þat rocher / Yloꝛe mony a counſeıler / Monẏ duẏk monẏ eoꝛl / Monẏ baroun knẏȝt sweẏn and cheoꝛl […] ([…] since he had at that cliff / lost many counsellors, / many dukes, many counts, / many barons, knights, attendants, and peasants […]) [c. 1340 [c. 1175], Kẏng Alıſaundre (Lincoln's Inn MS. Hale 150), Shropshire, translation of Roman de toute chevalerie by Thomas de Kent (in Anglo-Norman), published c. 1400, folio 82, recto; republished as Alysaunder, London: The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Rare Books and Manuscripts Online, 4 April 2023:]

Nouns inflected like erl

erl, worm,

Etymology

Inherited from Old English eorl, from Proto-West Germanic *erl, from Proto-Germanic *erlaz; cognate to Old Swedish iærl, Old Danish ierl. See: Old English Nouns 'eorl', Old English Nouns 'eorl'.

Verbs referencing "erl"

English Nouns earl.

Translations