wawe – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of wawe

Noun: wawe
Sg.wawe
Pl.wawes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • And fro the navele doun al covered was / With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas. [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, 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, lines 1099-1100:]

Nouns inflected like wawe

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From inflected forms in wāg- of Old English wǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz.

Verbs referencing "wawe"

English Nouns wave, English Nouns waw, English Nouns wawe.

Translations