Noun: tissu
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like tissu
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Old French tissu, past participle of tistre.
2. Forms with /ʃ/ do not reflect palatalisation of /s/ (as in modern English); instead, they exist because Old French /s(s)/ was perceived as being phonetically closer to Middle English /ʃ/ than to /s/.
Verbs referencing "tissu"
English Nouns
tissue.
Translations