ese – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of ese

Noun: ese
Sg.ese

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • 1370-90, William Langland, Piers Plowman
  • For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,
  • It is in cloistre or in scole. ((please add an English translation of this quotation))
  • […]hƿen þe delit i þe luſt iſ igan ſe ouerforð · þet ter nere nan ƿiðſeggunge ȝef þer ƿere eiſe to fulle þe dede · ([…] when the delight taken in the craving has gone so far that there will be no denying it if there's any way whatsoever to do it.) [c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 78, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 26 January 2018:]

Nouns inflected like ese

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

Borrowed from Old French aise, eise.

Verbs referencing "ese"

English Nouns ease, English Nouns easy.

Translations