ston – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of ston

Noun: ston
Sg.ston
Pl.stones; ston

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Iudaſ go þou on þe roc heie upon the ſton / lei þin heued i my barm, ſlep þou þe anon ("Judas, get up on the rock, high on the stone, / rest your head on my lap and fall asleep right away!") [c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 15-16; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:]
  • .· ⁊ þei ſeien to hillis and to ſtoonys falle ȝe on us ⁊ hide ȝe vs fro þe face of hi[m] þat ſittiþ on the troone.· ⁊ fro þe wraþþe of þe lomb · (And they said to hills and rocks: "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb […] ") [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 6:16, folio 119, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like ston

ston,

Etymology

Inherited from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz.

Verbs referencing "ston"

English Nouns stone.

Translations