craft – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of craft

Noun: craft
Sg.craft
Pl.craftes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • A prentis whilom dwelt in our citee, / And of a craft of vitaillers was he […] [c. 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Cokes Tale, page 50:]
  • The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne […] [c. 1381, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foules:]

Nouns inflected like craft

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old English cræft, from Proto-West Germanic *kraftu, from Proto-Germanic *kraftuz. See: Old English Nouns 'cræft'.

Verbs referencing "craft"

English Nouns craft.

Translations