gest – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of gest

Noun: gest

Sg.	gest
Pl.	gestes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

In olde Romayn gestes may men finde (In the old Roman histories may men find

Maurice's life; I bear it not in mind.) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1126-1127]
[...] Or elles it was the Grekes hors Synon,
That broghte Troye to destruccion,
As men may in thise olde gestes rede, [...] (… Or else it was Sinon the Greek's horse,

That brought Troy to destruction,

As men in these old romances read, …) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 209-211]

Nouns inflected like gest

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 a conflation of Old Norse gestr and Old English ġiest; both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Germanic *gʰóstis. Doublet of host. See: Old Norse Nouns 'gestr'.

Verbs referencing "gest"

English Nouns guest.

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