herberwe – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of herberwe

Noun: herberwe
Sg.herberwe
Pl.herberwes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Frankeleyns Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:]
  • Whon I. of herboꝛwe. hedde gret nede / Þou woldeſt not. to þin hous me take […] (When I really needed shelter / You wouldn't take me to your house […]) [c. 1390, “Merci passeþ. alle þinge.”, in Sowlehele (Vernon Lyrics, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 407, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]

Nouns inflected like herberwe

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

1. From the oblique cases of Old English herebeorg, from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu; equivalent to here (“army”) + bergh.
2. Forms with /u/ show remodelling of the second element based on Old English burh, while Northern forms in /iː/ likely show the same development of an epenthetic vowel between /ɛl/, /ɛr/ and historic /ɣ/ as Northern Middle English sweligh and Early Scots swely (“to swallow”); this evidently postdates the monophthongisation of Old English /e͜o/. See: Old English Nouns 'herebeorg'.

Verbs referencing "herberwe"

English Nouns harbor.

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