las – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of las

Noun: las
Sg.las
Pl.lasses

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his las. [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:]

Nouns inflected like las

stiffenes, las, trespas, compas, cipres, glas, ches,

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French laz, from the verb lacier (“to lace”).

Verbs referencing "las"

English Nouns lass.

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