staple – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of staple

Noun: staple
Sg.staple
Pl.staples

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like staple

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. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *stapulaz
4. Frankish *stapulbor.
5. Late Latin stapula
6. Old French estaple
7. Anglo-Norman staplebor.
8. Middle English staple
9. Borrowed from Anglo-Norman staple (Old French estaple), from Frankish *stapul (“post, pillar; basis, foundation”). Doublet of stapel (“post, stake”).

Verbs referencing "staple"

English Nouns staple.

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