snayl – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of snayl

Noun: snayl
Sg.snayl
Pl.snayles

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like snayl

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. Inherited from Old English sneġel, from Proto-West Germanic *snagil, from Proto-Germanic *snagilaz, *snigilaz.
2. The form snele represents either Old English snēl or, more likely, a borrowing from Old Norse snigill, with a development /sniɣəl/ (perhaps seen in Early Middle English Snigleswath, Snygheleswath "Snilesworth") > /sneːɣəl/ (open-syllable lengthening) > /snei̯l/ > /sneːl/. Such a borrowing would also explain the form /sniːl/, where open-syllable lengthening would be blocked due to either a development of /iɣ/ into /iː/ or trisyllabic shortening in inflected forms. See: Old English Nouns 'sneġel', Old English Nouns 'sneġel', Old Norse Nouns 'snigill'.

Verbs referencing "snayl"

English Nouns snail.

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