wastel – Middle English noun declension

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Noun: wastel

Sg.	wastel
Pl.	wastles

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde / With rosted flesh, and milk, and wastel brede. (Some small dogs she had, which she fed / With roasted meat, and milk, and wastel bread.) [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:]

Nouns inflected like wastel

brembel, throstel, mapel, mantel, hirdel, trokel, kirtel, wympel, whytel, veel, sparkel,

Etymology

From Old French wastel, gastel (> French gâteau), from Late Latin wastellum, from Frankish *wastil, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *wistiz (“sustenance, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- (“to dwell, stay”). Cognate with Middle High German wastel (“a kind of bread”). Compare Old High German wist (“food”) and Old English wist (“food”). See: French Nouns 'gâteau', Old English Nouns 'wist'.

Verbs referencing "wastel"

English Nouns wastel.