lof – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of lof

Noun: lof
Sg.lof
Pl.loves

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Drihten, þu dest þe lof of milc drinkende childre muðe. (Lord, out of milk-drinking children's mouths thou bringest forth praise.) [a. 1225, “In Dominica Palmarum”, in Richard Morris, editor, Old English Homilies and Homiletic Treatises, published 1868, page 7:]
  • For evyll workys may noght be y-hyde anente the Pepill: for the wyche thynge lese he moste his lof, his roialme shall fall, the crovne of his honnoure and of his reuerence he moste faille. [1422, “The Gouvernaunce of Prynces, or Pryvete of Pryveteis”, in James Yonge, transl., edited by Robert Steele and T Henderson, Three Prose Versions of the Secreta Secretorum, translation of Secretum Secretorum by Anonymous (in Arabic), published 1898, page 136, lines 15–18:]

Nouns inflected like lof

baillif, keverchef, actyf, wharf, elf, lof, houswyf, passyf, delf, kerf, wolf,

Etymology

From Old English lof (“praise, glory, song of praise, hymn”). See: Old English Nouns 'lof'.

Verbs referencing "lof"

English Nouns loff, English Nouns loave.

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