werk – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of werk

Noun: werk
Sg.werk
Pl.werkes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • ¶ Ac heo þat woꝛchen þᵗ woꝛd. þat holi writ techeþ. / And endeþ as Ich er ſeide. in ꝓfitable werkes. / Mouwen be siker þat heoꝛe ſoules. ſchullẽ to heuene. (But those who practice the precepts that Holy Scripture teaches / and finish [life] with praiseworthy deeds, as I previously said, / can be certain that their souls will [ascend] to Heaven.) [c. 1370, [William Langland], “[Passus 1]”, in Petrus plowmon (V, A-text), Worcestershire, published c. 1390, folio 395, verso, column 1; republished as Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet. a. 1, Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 10 January 2019:]
  • 1422, James Yonge (translator), Secretum Secretorum (Marital congress may be used and done … without being sinful.)

Nouns inflected like werk

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. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-om
4. Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
5. Proto-Germanic *werką
6. Proto-West Germanic *werk
7. Old English weorc
8. Middle English werk
9. From Old English weorc, from Proto-West Germanic *werk, from Proto-Germanic *werką, from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom; compare worchen.
10. Forms with /u/ are originally due to the late West Saxon Old English change of /we͜or/ to /wyr/ (which then develops further to /wur/), but are reinforced by the influence of worchen. The influence of that verb and its alternative forms also explains occasional forms with /i/ or /t͡ʃ/. See: Old English Nouns 'weorc'.

Verbs referencing "werk"

English Nouns werk, English Nouns wark.

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