suster – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of suster

Noun: suster
Sg.suster
Pl.sustren; sustres

Genitive

Sg.sustres; suster

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Ant ȝe mine leoue ſuſtren habbeð moni dei icrauet on me efter riƿle (And you, my beloved sisters, have asked me for a rule many times.) [c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 26 January 2018:]

Nouns inflected like suster

suster,

Etymology

From Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse systir. See: Old English Nouns 'sweostor', Old Norse Nouns 'systir'.

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