inflected form

  • 91ungegearwe — see ungearwe inflected form of ungearu …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 92éower — 1. genitive pl 2nd pers pron of you; pl of þín; gen of gé; 2. poss pron your, yours; qualifying a noun, your; predicative, yours; where in place of an inflected form of the adjective the genitive éower might be expected; þæt ic éowerne sum mé tó… …

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  • 93þecgan — 1. wv/t1b 3rd pres þecgeð past þegde ptp geþeged to take, consume; 2. inflected form of noun? receptacle? or = þeccan? …

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  • 94þrum — see tungeþrum see þrim, inflected form of þríe …

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  • 95hollow — [12] Modern English hole comes from an Old English adjective meaning ‘hollow’, and by a coincidental swap hollow originated in an Old English word for ‘hole’ (the two are probably ultimately related). Old English holh meant ‘hollow place’, ‘hole’ …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 96meadow — [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *mǣdwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which… …

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  • 97shade — [OE] Shade and shadow [12] are ultimately the same word. Both originated in Old English sceadu. Shade is the direct descendant of this, whereas shadow comes from its inflected form sceaduwe. Sceadu itself went back via prehistoric Germanic… …

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  • 98teen — [OE] The element teen (as in thirteen, fourteen, etc) originated as an inflected form of ten. The noun teen, usually used in the expression in one’s teens ‘from the ages of thirteen to nineteen’, was derived from it in the 17th century (‘Your… …

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  • 99today — [OE] Today is simply a compound assembled from the preposition to (in the now obsolete sense ‘at, on’) and day. Parallel formations are Dutch vandaag (literally ‘from or of day’) and Swedish and Danish i dag (‘in day’). In fact virtually all the… …

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  • 100construct state — n. (in Semitic languages) status constructus, inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun with the combination indicating a genitive relationship …

    English contemporary dictionary