fonne – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of fonne

Noun: fonne
Sg.fonne
Pl.fonnes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Chaucer, The Cantebury Tales, The Reeve's Prologue and Tale (men will call us fools)

Nouns inflected like fonne

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

Unknown, perhaps of North Germanic origin; see modern fun. Potentially related to fonnen (“to be insane”).

Verbs referencing "fonne"

English Nouns fun, English Nouns fon.

Translations