stound – Middle English noun declension

Noun: stound

Sg.

stound

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

And on a day it happed, in a stounde,
Sik lay the maunciple on a maladye; (And on one day it happened, at a time,

The manciple lay sick with a malady;

People thought indeed that he should die.) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3992-3994]

Nouns inflected like stound

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

From Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”). See: Old English Nouns 'stund'.