Noun: duk
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Dukes of þis dymme place. anoon vndo þıſe yates / That crıſt may come In. þe kynges ſone of heuene (Lords of this dark place, open these gates straight away, / so Christ, the King of Heaven's son, can come in.) [c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus xvııȷ᷒ ⁊c et ııȷ᷒ de Dobet”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 113, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:]
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ſe an ƿæſ ᵹehaten petruſ · he ƿæſ munec of clunni ·⁊ ƿeaſ boren of þa ricceſte men of rome · mid him helden ða of rome ·⁊ ſe duc of ſicilie · (One was called Peter; he was a monk from Cluny who was descended from Rome's most powerful men. The people of Rome and the duke of Sicily sided with him.) [p. 1154, “AD 1129”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 87, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:]
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[…] ffoꝛ he hadde in þat rocher / Yloꝛe mony a counſeıler / Monẏ duẏk monẏ eoꝛl / Monẏ baroun knẏȝt sweẏn and cheoꝛl […] ([…] since he had at that cliff / lost many counsellors, / many dukes, many counts, / many barons, knights, attendants, and peasants […]) [c. 1340 [c. 1175], Kẏng Alıſaundre (Lincoln's Inn MS. Hale 150), Shropshire, translation of Roman de toute chevalerie by Thomas de Kent (in Anglo-Norman), published c. 1400, folio 82, recto; republished as Alysaunder, London: The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Rare Books and Manuscripts Online, 4 April 2023:]
Nouns inflected like duk
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
Borrowed from Old French duc, from Latin dux. See: Latin Nouns '
dux'.
Verbs referencing "duk"
English Nouns
duke.
Translations