make – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of make

Noun: make
Sg.make
Pl.makes; imaken

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Forͬ fra þatt hıre make ıſſ dæd⹎ Ne kepeþþ ᵹho nan oþerr. Acc ſerrᵹͪeþþ aᵹᵹ forͬþı ꝥ ᵹho. Ne maᵹᫌ himͫ noƿƿhar fındenn (Because whenever her mate is dead, she doesn't get another, but always grieves since she can't find him anywhere.) [c. 1180, Orͬm, “Secundum Lucam .I. [Luke 1:5] / Secundum Lucam .II. [Luke 1:18]”, in Orͬmulum (Bodleian MS. Junius 1), Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire, folio 20, verso, column 1; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Nouns inflected like make

make,

Etymology

From Old English maca, ġemaca, from Proto-West Germanic *makō, *gamakō, from Proto-Germanic *makô. Doublet of macche (“bride, equal”). See: Old English Nouns 'maca'.

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