knyght – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of knyght

Noun: knyght
Sg.knyght
Pl.knyghtes; knyghten

Genitive

Sg.knyghtes
Pl.knyghte; knyghtene

Dative

Sg.knyghte
Pl.knyghten

Sample Sentences

  • [Þ]au pilatuſ him come wid ten hu[n]dꝛed cniſteſ. / yet ic wolde louerd foꝛ þi loue fiſte. ("If Pilate himself came with ten hundred knights, / Lord, I would still fight for your sake.") [c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 34-35; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:]
  • What ys he, þys lordling, þat cometh vrom þe vyht, / Wyth blodrede wede so grysliche ydyht, / So vayre ycoyntised, so semlich in syht, / So styflyche ȝóngeþ, so douhti a knyht? (Who is he, this noble who comes from the battle / with blood-red clothes so grimly coloured, / so finely adorned, so seemly in sight; / walking so boldly, so doughty a knight?) [a. 1333, “Poem 16: Quis est iste qui uenit de Edom?; Fol. 210r”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919), Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:]
  • Hıs loue is al so swete ẏ wıs / So euer is mẏlk oꝛ lıcoꝛıs / Eoꝛþlıche knẏȝt oꝛ eorþlıche kẏng / Nıs so swete ın no þyng […] (His love is certainly always so sweet, / just like milk or licorice is, / [that no] earthly lord or earthly king / can be so sweet in anything […]) [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 32, recto; republished as Alysaunder, London: The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Rare Books and Manuscripts Online, 4 April 2023:]
  • ¶ Þe Roþ᷑. was nouþer. Ok. ne Elm⹎ / Hit was Edward þe þridde. þe noble kniht. (The rudder was neither oak or elm: / It was Edward the Third, the noble warrior!) [c. 1390, “Edward þe þridde”, in Sowlehele (Vernon Lyrics, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 411, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Nouns inflected like knyght

knyght,

Etymology

From Old English cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht. See: Old English Nouns 'cniht'.

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