water – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of water

Noun: water
Sg.water
Pl.wateres

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • al ſwa great ſwa a beam:
  • þe he leide in ane walle ſtream.
  • Þe ilke makeð þat water hot:
  • & þan folc halwende. [c. 1190, Layamon, Brut, MS. Cotton Caligula A ix edition:]

Nouns inflected like water

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 *wed-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
5. Proto-Germanic *watōr
6. Proto-West Germanic *watar
7. Old English wæter
8. Middle English water
9. From Old English wæter, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr. See: Old English Nouns 'wæter'.

Verbs referencing "water"

English Nouns water.

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