scluse – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of scluse

Noun: scluse
Sg.scluse

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like scluse

syment, cristened, savete, savyne, sandal, whelere, scuage, scluse, sclise, sclave, schyft, schuit, schite, schort, schold, schern, smothe, smethe, smerte, slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Old French escluse, from Late Latin exclūsa.
2. A pronunciation with /z/ has been assumed based on modern French écluse; the modern English pronunciation with final /s/ is presumably a borrowing of a Northern form with final devoicing into the Early Modern standard.

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