hond – Middle English noun declension

Noun: hond

Sg.	hond
Pl.	hondes; honde

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Blessid be my Lord God, that techith myn hondis to werre and my fyngris to batel. (Blessed be my Lord God, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to battle.) [a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalm 143:1”, in Wycliffe's Bible:]

Nouns inflected like hond

wrench, fass, hond,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Old English hand, hond (“hand”), from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.
2. The plural hend is probably borrowed from the Old Norse nominative/accusative plural hendr. See: Old English Nouns 'hand', Old English Nouns 'hand'.

Verbs referencing "hond"

English Nouns hand.