pote – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of pote

Noun: pote
Sg.pote
Pl.potes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Fur Potes de Calabr'. [1398, James Hamilton Wylie, “Appendix A: Duchy of Lancaster Records”, in History of England under Henry the Fourth, volume 4, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1898, page 173:]
  • One gown of blue colour furred with potes of calabre, 28 [1420, City of London (England). Corporation, Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guild-hall, volumes 1413-1437, The University Press, published 1943, page 75:]
  • […] the beeste […] embraced hym with his potes, or feet to fore, […] [1481, William Carton, “68: Godfrey is wounded by a Bear.”, in Mary Noyes Colvin, PhD., editor, Godeffroy of Boloyne; or, The siege and conqueste of Jerusalem, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., translation of original by William of Tyre, published 1893, page 113:]
  • My wife's blewe gowne engrayned furred with powtes. [1497, “Will of R. Burton”, in Susan Flood, editor, St. Albans Wills 1471-1500, Hertfordshire Record Society, published 1993, page 141:]

Nouns inflected like pote

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 Middle Dutch pote, from Old Dutch *pota, related to Middle Low German pōte and Middle French pote (< Germanic) More at English paw. See: English Nouns 'paw'.

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