strete – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of strete

Noun: strete
Sg.strete
Pl.stretes; strete; streten

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Þou comeſt fer iþe bꝛode ſtret fer iþe bꝛode ſtrete. / ſumme of þin cuneſmen ther thou meiſt imete. (You'll go far down the main street, far down the main street; / You might [even] meet some of your relatives there.) [c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 5-6; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:]

Nouns inflected like strete

quene, almesse, lede, strete,

Etymology

Inherited from Old English strǣt, strēt, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu, from Late Latin strāta (“paved road”). The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Verbs referencing "strete"

English Nouns street.

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