erd – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of erd

Noun: erd
Sg.erd

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Ich fare hom to min Erde. [The Owl and the Nightingale]
  • ... ever hade ben an erde of erþe þe swettest. [Cleanness]
  • Excludit out of his erd. [Wars of Alexander]

Nouns inflected like erd

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

Inherited from Old English eard (“country, home, nature”), from Proto-West Germanic *ardi, from Proto-Germanic *ardiz; some senses are due to conflation with erthe (“earth”). See: Old English Nouns 'eard', Old English Nouns 'eard'.

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