Noun: net
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Hıs loꝛdes sheep[e] / hıs neet / hıs daẏerẏe / Hıs swẏn / hıs hoꝛs / hıs stooꝛ / and hıs pultrẏe / Was hoollẏ / ın thıs Reues gou[er]nẏnge […] (His lord's sheep, beef herd, dairy herd, / swine, horses, livestock, and poultry, / were entirely under this reeve's control […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 9, verso, lines 597-599:]
Nouns inflected like net
flourdelis,
macys,
mavys,
todel,
paire,
der,
net,
schep,
organum,
harneys,
schipful,
ellern,
reynder,
mareys,
Norreis,
Etymology
Inherited from Old English nett, from Proto-West Germanic *nati, from Proto-Germanic *natją. See: Old English Nouns '
nett', Old English Nouns '
nett'.
Verbs referencing "net"
English Nouns
net.
Translations