Noun: feal
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like feal
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
1. Probably borrowed from Anglo-Norman feal (“faithful”), earlier fedeil, from Latin fidēlis; compare feaute.
2. In Middle English, reinterpreted as fe (“fee”) + -al, influencing both the sense and form. See: Latin Nouns '
fidēlis'.
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