fend – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of fend

Noun: fend
Sg.fend
Pl.fendes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • and hıs fame .· wente in to al ſirie / ⁊ þei bꝛouȝten to hĩ alle þat weren at male eeſe · ⁊ þat weren take wiþ dyīiſe langoꝛes ⁊ turmentis / and hem þat haddẽ fendis · ⁊ lunatik men · ⁊ men in þe paleſie .· ⁊ he heelide hem / (And his fame went into all Syria; and they brought to him all that were at mal-ease, and that were taken with diverse languors and torments, and them that had fiends, and lunatic men, and men in palsy, and he healed them.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A24&version=WYC) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 4:24, folio 1, verso, column 1, lines 18–23; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
  • Thanne ıḣc was lad of a ſpirit in to deſert .· to be temptid of þe fend / (Then Jesus was led of a Spirit into desert, to be tempted of the fiend.https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A1&version=WYC) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 4:1, folio 2, recto, column 2, lines 3–4; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like fend

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

From Old English fēond, from Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz.

Verbs referencing "fend"

English Nouns enemy, English Nouns fiend.

Translations