horsen
English
    
    Pronunciation
    
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sən
Etymology 1
    
From Middle English horsen, horsene, equivalent to horse + -en (“of or belonging to”).
Adjective
    
horsen (comparative more horsen, superlative most horsen)
- (rare) Of or pertaining to horses; equine
-  1558, Warde, Alexis' Secr.:- Let hym put the Yearth onely, the Floxe, and the Horsen doung.
 
-  1773, Thomas Hawkins, Gammer Gurton's needle:- For laughter: the horsen dolt at last caught up a club, As though he would have slain the master devil, Belsabub, […]
 
-  1907, William Monks, A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas:- They were all soon mounted and moving toward West Plains, soon coming to a "horsen" log.
 
- 1952, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Volume 69:
- […] farm nearly equal to Thurston's: he complained against William Seburne, who under the name Hopkins had as great a total land interest, that 'Seyborne seyde ffoorde was a bawdy knave and a bawdy harlot a horsen knave and that no truth […]
 
 
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Etymology 2
    
From Middle English horsen, alternative plural of hors, equivalent to horse + -en (plural suffix).
Middle English
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈhɔrsən/
Alternative forms
    
Descendants
    
- English: horsen
References
    
- “horsen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
    
From Old English horsian; equivalent to hors + -en (infinitive suffix).
Alternative forms
    
Verb
    
horsen
Usage notes
    
This verb is mainly used in its past forms.
Conjugation
    
Conjugation of horsen (weak in -ed)
| infinitive | (to) horsen, horse | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | horse | horsed | |
| 2nd-person singular | horsest | horsedest | |
| 3rd-person singular | horseth | horsed | |
| subjunctive singular | horse | ||
| imperative singular | — | ||
| plural1 | horsen, horse | horseden, horsede | |
| imperative plural | horseth, horse | — | |
| participles | horsynge, horsende | horsed, yhorsed | |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
    
- English: horse
References
    
- “horsen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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