hegge – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of hegge

Noun: hegge
Sg.hegge
Pl.hegges

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • A col-fox, ful of sly iniquitee,
  • That in the grove hadde woned yeres three,
  • By heigh imaginacioun forn-cast,
  • The same night thurgh-out the hegges brast [...] (A fox, full of sly iniquity,
  • That in the grove had dwelled three years,
  • By exalted imagination predestined,
  • The same night through the hedges broke …) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 4405-4408]

Nouns inflected like hegge

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 English heċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Verbs referencing "hegge"

English Nouns hedge.

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