wet – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of wet

Noun: wet
Sg.wet
Pl.wetes; weten

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Lord, what they are weyll / that hens ar past! / ffor thay noght feyll / theym to downe cast. / here is makyll vnceyll / and long has it last, / Now in hart, now in heyll / now in weytt, now in blast / Now in care, / Now in comforth agane, / Now is fayre, now is rane, / Now in hart full fane, / And after full sare. (Lord! They are well that are gone from here! For they do not feel anything, those who have been cast down. Here, there is much misery, and it lasts a long time: in one's heart, in hail, in rain, in wind or thunder, in care, then in comfort again, then fairness, then rain; at one point glad in heart, and after most grieved.) [15th c., “Pagina pastorum [Shepherds' Play, I]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 100, lines 1–9:]

Nouns inflected like wet

brest, cloud, wight, wet, dint, bord, bouk, barn, helm, wort,

Etymology

From Old English wǣt, wāt, and weten (“to wet”).

Verbs referencing "wet"

English Nouns wet.

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