warde – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of warde

Noun: warde
Sg.warde
Pl.wardes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • And with that breeth helle brak, with Belialles barres —
  • For any wye or warde, wide open the yates. [1377, William Langland, edited by Aubrey Vincent Carlyle Schmidt, The Vision of Piers Plowman: A critical edition of the B-text based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17 (The Everyman Library), second edition, London · Vermont: J. M. Dent · Charles E. Tuttle, published 1995, →ISBN, passus xviii, page 320, lines 322–323:]
  • Thou hast slayn the wardes of the serpentes and the portyers of the lions that kepte this contre Inhabitable. [1471, William Caxton, edited by Heinrich Oskar Sommer, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, page 213:]

Nouns inflected like warde

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 weard. See: Old English Nouns 'weard'.

Verbs referencing "warde"

English Nouns ward.

Translations