noun

nounes (plural)
nown (alternative)
nowne (alternative)
noune (alternative)

English: noun

From Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen, a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name.

(grammar) noun (part of speech; a category of words including substantives or nouns in the strict sense and adjectives)


abstract

English: abstract

Scots: abstract

Drawn away or out of; detached:
(grammar) Abstract (of a noun).

Drawn away or out of; detached:
Abstract (of a noun).


future

English: future

Scots: futur

Borrowed from Old French futur, from Latin futūrus, past participle of sum (cognate to Middle English been).

futur (alternative)
ffutur (alternative)
futire (alternative)

(rare, grammar) Having the future tense; grammatically marking futureness.


mode

modes (plural)
mood (alternative)
moode (alternative)
moodd (alternative)
moede (alternative)
mod (alternative)
mood (alternative)
moode (alternative)

English: mode, mood


tens

English: tense

From Old French tens, tans, from Latin tempus.


verbe

English: verb

Borrowed from Old French verbe, from Latin verbum, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om. Doublet of word.


nombre

nombres (plural)
noumber (alternative)
noumbere (alternative)
noumbir (alternative)
noumbre (alternative)
nowmbre (alternative)
nowmbyre (alternative)
nowmere (alternative)
number (alternative)
numbir (alternative)
numbre (alternative)
numbyr (alternative)

English: number (see there for further descendants)

Middle Scots: nowmer, numer

Scots: nummer

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman noumbre and Old French nonbre, from Latin numerus.


tyme

tymes (plural)
tymen (plural)
teme (alternative)
teyme (alternative)
tim (alternative)
time (alternative)
tym (alternative)
tima (alternative Early-Middle-English)
timæ (alternative Early-Middle-English)
tyma (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: time (see there for further descendants)

Scots: time, teime, tim

Yola: deemes (plural)

From Old English tīma, from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô. Doublet of demon.

(grammar) Verbal tense; the way time is morphologically marked on a verb.


comparatif

English: comparative

Borrowed from Old French comparatif, from Latin comparātīvus.

comparatijf (alternative)
comparatyf (alternative)
comparatyfe (alternative)

(grammar, rare) Of the comparative degree.


enden

enden (infinitive)
to enden (infinitive)
ende (infinitive)
ende (first-person present singular)
ended (first-person past singular)
endest (present second-person singular)
endedest (past second-person singular)
endeth (present singular third-person)
ended (past singular third-person)
ende (present singular subjunctive)
ended (past singular subjunctive)
ende (imperative present singular)
enden (plural present)
ende (plural present)
endeden (past plural)
endede (past plural)
endeth (imperative plural present)
ende (imperative plural present)
endynge (participle present)
endende (participle present)
ended (participle past)
yended (participle past)
endien (alternative)
andin (alternative)
endenn (alternative)
eenden (alternative)
ende (alternative)
eende (alternative)
end (alternative)
endi (alternative)
endie (alternative)
eendyn (alternative)

English: end

Scots: ende, end

From Old English endian; equivalent to ende + -en (infinitival suffix).

To come to an end, stop, or termination (usually of an era or event)

Of literary works; to end, to have no more chapters or pages.

(rare, Late Middle English) To be suffixed or inflected.

To complete or accomplish; to reach completion:

To construct or erect an edifice or structure.

(rare, philosophy) To be ended; to be finite or limited.


comun

English: common

Middle Scots: commoun, common, commone

Scots: common

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman comun, from Latin commūnis (“common, general”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom-moy-ni-s (“held in common”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange, change”). Compare mene (“common”) for an etymologically equivalent native formation.

der

comoun (alternative)
commone (alternative)
commun (alternative)
commune (alternative)
commuyn (alternative)
comune (alternative)
comyn (alternative)
coumoun (alternative)
comen (alternative Late-Middle-English)
common (alternative Late-Middle-English)
commyn (alternative Late-Middle-English)
comon (alternative Late-Middle-English)
comone (alternative Late-Middle-English)
comyne (alternative Late-Middle-English)
comynne (alternative Late-Middle-English)

(grammar, of nouns, rare) Common; not proper.

Frequent, usual; occuring often:
Common; not proper.


voys

voyses (plural)
vois (alternative)
voice (alternative)
voyce (alternative)
voysce (alternative)
voyse (alternative)
voise (alternative)
voyz (alternative)
voix (alternative)
voce (alternative)
veys (alternative)
vaise (alternative)
voyes (alternative)

English: voice

Scots: voice, vice, vyce

Yola: vice

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, veys, from Latin vōx, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs.

(grammar) Grammatical voice; the relation a verb or noun has to the subject.


governen

governen (infinitive)
to governen (infinitive)
governe (infinitive)
governe (first-person present singular)
governed (first-person past singular)
governest (present second-person singular)
governedest (past second-person singular)
governeth (present singular third-person)
governed (past singular third-person)
governe (present singular subjunctive)
governed (past singular subjunctive)
governe (imperative present singular)
governen (plural present)
governe (plural present)
governeden (past plural)
governede (past plural)
governeth (imperative plural present)
governe (imperative plural present)
governynge (participle present)
governende (participle present)
governed (participle past)
ygoverned (participle past)
governe (alternative)
guverne (alternative)
gouvern (alternative)

English: govern

Scots: govern

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubernō, from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω (kubernáō).

(grammar) To depend upon or govern (a part of speech)


degre

degres (plural)
degree (alternative)
degrece (alternative)
de-gre (alternative)
degrie (alternative)

English: degree

Scots: degree

Borrowed from Old French degré, degréz (hence the variant degrece); equivalent to de- + gre.

The state, quality, or status of something; something's current characteristics:

A distinguishing quantity; degree, amount, or extent:

(grammar) A type or extent of grammatical comparison.


abstractif

English: abstractive

From Latin abstractivus, from abstractus (“drawn away”) + -īvus; equivalent to abstract + -if.

(grammar, of nouns) Denoting a quality or state that is not concrete; abstract.


plurelle

English: plural

Scots: plural

From Old French plurel, from Latin plūrālis.

plural (alternative)
plurele (alternative)
plurell (alternative)
plurel (alternative)


plurelle

English: plural


gramere

English: grammar

Scots: grammar; glamour

→ English: glamour, glamor (see there for further descendants)

From Old French gramaire, grammaire, from Latin grammatica. Doublet of gramarie.

grameer (alternative)
gramer (alternative)
grammer (alternative)
grammere (alternative)
gramour (alternative)
gramowre (alternative)


gramarie

English: gramarye, grammary, gramary

→ Scots: gramarye, gramarie

Scots: glamourie (now literary)

desc

→ English: glamoury, glamourie (obsolete)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gramarie, variant of gramaire, from Latin grammatica. Doublet of gramere.

gramary (alternative)
gramery (alternative)
grammarie (alternative)
gramory (alternative)
grammory (alternative)


endyng

endynges (plural)
endunge (alternative)
ȝiendunȝe (alternative)
hendinke (alternative)
endingge (alternative)
endyngge (alternative)
ending (alternative)
eendyng (alternative)
endynge (alternative)
hendynge (alternative)
heyndynge (alternative)

English: ending

Scots: endin

Yola: endeen

From Old English endung, ġeendung; equivalent to ende + -ing.

An ending, termination, or conclusion.
A grammatical ending; a suffix.


apposicioun

English: apposition

Borrowed from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositiō; equivalent to ad- + posicioun.

apposicione (alternative)
apposicion (alternative)


preposicioun

preposiciouns (plural)
preposicion (alternative)
preposicyon (alternative)

English: preposition

Borrowed from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositiō; equivalent to pre- + posicioun.

(grammar) A preposition; an adposition preceding the word it modifies.


governynge

governyngis (plural)
governyng (alternative)
governing (alternative)
gouvernynge (alternative)

English: governing

(grammar, rare) Requirement of a specific grammatical case.


passyf

English: passive

Yola: parshagh

Borrowed from Middle French or Old French passif, from Latin passivus.

passif (alternative)
passife (alternative)
passiff (alternative)
passive (alternative)
passyve (alternative)

(grammar) passive (in the passive voice)


passyf

passyves (plural)
passif (alternative)
passife (alternative)
passiff (alternative)
passive (alternative)
passyve (alternative)

English: passive


actyf

English: active

Scots: ackie

From Old French actif, from Latin āctīvus; equivalent to acte + -yf.

actif (alternative)
actiff (alternative)
active (alternative)
actyve (alternative)

(grammar) active (relating to the active voice)


actyf

actyves (plural)
actif (alternative)
actiff (alternative)
active (alternative)
actyve (alternative)

English: active


comparisoun

English: comparison

Scots: comparison

Borrowed from Old French comparison, comparaison, from Latin comparātiō, comparātiōnem; equivalent to comparen + -isoun.

comparison (alternative)
comparson (alternative)
comparsoun (alternative)
comparyson (alternative)
comparysoun (alternative)
comperison (alternative)
comperson (alternative)
comperyson (alternative)

(grammar) Grammatical comparison (of adjectives and adverbs)


femynyne

English: feminine

Borrowed from Old French feminin; compare femele.

femenine (alternative)
femenyn (alternative)
femenyne (alternative)
feminine (alternative)
feminyne (alternative)
femynyn (alternative)
ffemynyn (alternative)

(grammar) Of feminine grammatical gender.


masculyn

English: masculine

Borrowed from Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus; compare male.

masclyn (alternative)
masclyne (alternative)
masculine (alternative)
masculyne (alternative)

(grammar) Of masculine grammatical gender.


gramarien

enm-noun

gramarien (plural gramariens or gramarienes)

gramariens (plural)
gramarienes (plural)
gramarian (alternative)
gramarion (alternative)
gramarione (alternative)
gramarioun (alternative)
gramaryone (alternative)
gramaryoun (alternative)
grammarion (alternative)
gramerien (alternative)

English: grammarian

From Middle French gramarien, gramairien; equivalent to gramere (“grammar”) + -ien (“-ian”).

A grammarian; a student or researcher of grammar.


construen

enm-verb

construen (third-person singular simple present construeth, present participle construende, construynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle construed)

construeth (present singular third-person)
construende (participle present)
construynge (participle present)
construed (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
construen (infinitive)
to construen (infinitive)
construe (infinitive)
construe (first-person present singular)
construed (first-person past singular)
construest (present second-person singular)
construedest (past second-person singular)
construeth (present singular third-person)
construed (past singular third-person)
construe (present singular subjunctive)
construed (past singular subjunctive)
construe (imperative present singular)
construen (plural present)
construe (plural present)
construeden (past plural)
construede (past plural)
construeth (imperative plural present)
construe (imperative plural present)
construynge (participle present)
construende (participle present)
construed (participle past)
constreu (alternative)
constrew (alternative)
constrewe (alternative)
constru (alternative)
construe (alternative)
construwe (alternative)
construyn (alternative)
constrw (alternative)
constre (alternative reduced)

desc

obsolete <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">conster</i>

English: construe (obsolete conster)

Borrowed from Late Latin cōnstruō (“agglomerate”), from con- (“with”) + struō (“pile up, arrange; build, erect”).

affix

(grammar) To be part of a construction; to construct.