sone – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of sone

Noun: sone
Sg.sone
Pl.sones

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • mi litle ſones kepe ȝe ȝou fro mawmetis (My little children, keep yourselves from idols.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon ·i· 5:21, folio 115, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like sone

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

From Old English sunu, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús. See: Old English Nouns 'sunu'.

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