nevew – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of nevew

Noun: nevew
Sg.nevew
Pl.nevewes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3594 ([...] For he thy nevew was, and sone-in-lawe, [...]
  • … For he was thy nephew, and son-in-law, …)

Nouns inflected like nevew

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Borrowed from Old French neveu, later form of nevod, from Latin nepōtem, accusative of nepōs. First attested in c. 1325.
2. Pace Aitken, forms with /uː/ (especially characteristic of Northern Middle English) likely represent Old French nevou, which displays the Western Old French development of Latin -ō- in open syllables into /u/.

Verbs referencing "nevew"

English Nouns nephew.

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