Noun: menske
| Sg. | menske |
| Pl. | menskes; mensken |
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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[…]ah aſe feole ſiðen aſ þu ouerkimeſt him · aſe feole crunen · þet iſ to ſeggen · aſe feole menſken of miſliche murhðen · ([…] but as many crowns as there are times you overcame him, that is to say, many honors in the form of various joys.) [c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 64, recto; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 26 January 2018:]
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foꝛ ſoþe ſire quaþ aliſaundrine ⁊ · to ſaue ȝour mensk / i wol ȝou telle tiȝtly · what turn ſche as wꝛouȝt[…] ("Truthfully, sir" said Alexandrine, "to save your honour, I'll tell you all about the thing she's done […]) [c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 34, recto, lines 2028-2029; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 70:]
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amid te menſke of þi neb þet iſ þe fehereſte deal · bitƿeonen muðeſ ſmech ⁊ neaſeſ ſmeal[…] (Amidst the beauty of your face, which is the nicest part [of the body], between the mouth's taste and the nose's smell […]) [c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 75, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 26 January 2018:]
Nouns inflected like menske
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse mennska (“humanity”), a substantivisation of mennskr (“human”), ultimately reflecting the weak inflection of Proto-Germanic *manniskaz; compare the development of modern English mensch. See: Old Norse Nouns '
mennska'.
Verbs referencing "menske"
English Nouns
honor, English Nouns
mense.
Translations