feyre – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of feyre

Noun: feyre
Sg.feyre
Pl.feyres

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • I governed hem so wel after my lawe
  • That eche of hem ful blisful was and fawe
  • To bringen me gay thinges fro the feyre (I governed them so well by my rules
  • That each was blissful and happy
  • To bring me gay things from the fair) [c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales:]

Nouns inflected like feyre

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 French foire, from Vulgar Latin *fēria, from the classical Latin plural noun fēriae.

Verbs referencing "feyre"

Dutch Nouns fair.

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