mirour – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of mirour

Noun: mirour
Sg.mirour
Pl.mirours

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • And in to þe lond of longynge. allone she me brouȝte / And in a Miro᷑ þat hıȝte middelerþe. she made me to bıholde / Sone she seıde to me. here myȝtow se wondres […] (And into the land of longing, she brought me by myself, / then she got me to stare at a mirror called Middle-earth. / Shortly she said to me, "Here you can see marvels […] ") [c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus undecım᷒”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 60, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:]

Nouns inflected like mirour

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Borrowed from Old French mireor, from the verb mirer (“to look at”).
2. Forms with loss of final /r/ are probably from dissimilation occasioned by the previous /r/.

Verbs referencing "mirour"

English Nouns mirror.

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