houve – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of houve

Noun: houve
Sg.houve
Pl.houves

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • I pray yow alle, that ye nat yow greve,
  • Thogh I answere, and somdeel sette his howve
  • - Chaucer, The Reeve's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, ll.56-57

Nouns inflected like houve

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 Old English hūfe (“a covering for the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūbā, from Proto-Germanic *hūbǭ (“hood, cowl”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to bend, curve, vault”).
2. Cognate with Dutch huif (“hood, tent”), German Haube (“hood, bonnet, cap”), Swedish huva (“hood, bonnet, cap”), Icelandic húfa (“cap”). See: Old English Nouns 'hūfe', Dutch Nouns 'huif', German Nouns 'Haube', Swedish Nouns 'huva', Icelandic Nouns 'húfa'.

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