stronde – Middle English noun declension

Noun: stronde

Sg.	stronde
Pl.	strondes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes (Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,

And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,

To distant shrines well known in distant lands.) [late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue]

Nouns inflected like stronde

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. From Old English strand, from Proto-West Germanic *strandu, from Proto-Germanic *strandō.
2. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms. See: Old English Nouns 'strand'.