lord – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of lord

Noun: lord
Sg.lord
Pl.lordes

Genitive

Sg.lordes
Pl.lordes; lordene

Dative

Sg.lorde

Sample Sentences

  • I nul ſulle my louerd foꝛ noneſ cunneſ eiſte. / bote hit be foꝛ þe þritti platen. þat he me bitaiſte. ("I won't betray my Lord for any kind of good, / except for the thirty pieces that he left me.") [c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 22-23; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:]
  • […]to fare out as faſt · wiþ his fader to ſpeke / ⁊ with lordesse of þat lond · þat him had long miſſed ([…] to comfortably leave to speak with his father and lords from that realm who'd missed him for a long while.) [c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 71, recto, lines 4538-4539; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 145:]
  • 1480, Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316 ((please add an English translation of this quotation))

Nouns inflected like lord

lord, monk,

Etymology

From Old English hlāford, hlāfweard, in turn from hlāf (“bread, loaf”) + weard (“ward, guardian, keeper”).

Verbs referencing "lord"

English Nouns lord, Polish Nouns lord, Spanish Nouns lord.

Translations