Noun: thirst
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like thirst
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
1. Inherited from Old English þurst (with vocalism modified after þyrstan), from Proto-West Germanic *þurstu, from Proto-Germanic *þurstuz.
2. Southern and West Midland forms with /f/ either spread to this word from or reflect an apheretic form of afurst, a local variant of athirst, which originated from assimilation of /θ/ to the preceding /f/ in earlier ofþurst. They may have been reinforced by the parallel of afyngred, variant of ofhungred (where a similar assimilatory process occurred). See: Old English Nouns '
þurst', Old English Nouns '
þurst'.
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