bocstaff – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of bocstaff

Noun: bocstaff
Sg.bocstaff

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like bocstaff

syment, cristened, savete, savyne, sandal, whelere, scuage, scluse, sclise, sclave, schyft, schuit, schite, schort, schold, schern, smothe, smethe, smerte, slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old English bōcstæf (“letter, written character”), from bōc (“book”) + stæf (“staff, character”), from Proto-Germanic *bōkastabaz. Compare Danish bogstav, Faroese bókstavur, German Buchstabe, Icelandic bókstafur, Norwegian bokstav, Swedish bokstav. See: Danish Nouns 'bogstav', Faroese Nouns 'bókstavur', German Nouns 'Buchstabe', Icelandic Nouns 'bókstafur', Swedish Nouns 'bokstav'.

Verbs referencing "bocstaff"

English Nouns bookstaff.

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