widwe – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of widwe

Noun: widwe
Sg.widwe

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • A man moot nedes love, maugree his heed.
  • He may nat fleen it, thogh he sholde be deed, (A man must of necessity love, in spite of all he can do.
  • He can not flee (from) it, though he should be dead,
  • Whether she be maid, or widow, or else wife.) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1169-1171]

Nouns inflected like widwe

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

From Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. See: Old English Nouns 'widuwe'.

Verbs referencing "widwe"

English Nouns widow.

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