dagon – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of dagon

Noun: dagon
Sg.dagon
Pl.dagons

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • 'Yeve us a busshel whete, malt, or reye,
  • A goddes kechil, or a trip of chese,
  • Or elles what yow list, we may nat chese;
  • A goddes halfpeny or a masse-peny,
  • Or yeve us of your brawn, if ye have eny; (Our suster dere, lo! here I write your name;
  • Bacon or beef, or swich thing as ye finde.'
  • "Give us a bushel of wheat, malt or rye, or a God's cake, or some cheese—whatever you like, we leave it up to you. A God's halfpenny or mass-penny, or a piece of meat, if you have any; A scrap of your blanket, my dear lady, our sister dear, look! I write your name here: Bacon or beef, or any such thing you find.") [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Somnour's Tale", in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Rev. Walter W. Skeat, editor, The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 4, Second Edition, Oxford at the Clarendon Press: Humphrey Milford, 1900, →OCLC, lines 1746–1753 (38–45)]

Nouns inflected like dagon

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

Compare English dag (“a loose end”). See: English Nouns 'dag'.

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