swerd – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of swerd

Noun: swerd
Sg.swerd
Pl.swerdes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Nile ȝe deme þat I cam to ſende pees in to erþe / I cam not to ſende pees .· but swerd (Don't feel that I came to bring peace to the Earth. I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 10:34, folio 4, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like swerd

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 sweord, from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą.
2. The forms /swoːrd/, /swɔrd/ originally mainly occur in Northwest Midland Middle English and adjacent dialects (although it is the usual form in the Auchinleck Manuscript), but spread further in Late Middle English. See: Old English Nouns 'sweord', Old English Nouns 'sweord'.

Verbs referencing "swerd"

English Nouns sward.

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