hom – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of hom

Noun: hom
Sg.hom
Pl.homes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like hom

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.
2. The spellings geen, heem, neen for gon (“to go”), hom, and non (“none”) in the representation of Northern Middle English in Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale were argued by Tolkien to be from scribal confusion of ⟨e⟩ and ⟨o⟩. Smith, deeming such confusion improbable, instead posits that such spellings are an East Midland rendition of pronunciations such as [ɡæːn], [hæːm], [næːn] or [ɡɛːn], [hɛːm], [nɛːn] from the early actuation of the Great Vowel Shift in Northern Middle English. Horobin rejects this, concluding that heem is a rendition of a borrowing from Old Norse heimr, while geen and neen are analogical creations based upon it. See: Old Norse Nouns 'heimr'.

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