Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
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Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
160. A.S. _gelóma_, _lóma_.
Lomerande, hesitating, creeping, B. 1094. This term seems to be
connected with _lumber_. O.E. _lumer_, _lomer_, to move heavily.
O.Du. _lammer_, _lemmer_, impedimentum, molestia. (Kil.) Dan.
_belemre_. Du. _belemmern_, to encumber, impede.
Lompe, lamp, A. 1046.
Londe, land, A. 148, 937.
Lone, path, lane, A. 1066. N.Prov.E. _lone_, _lannin_. Fris. _lona_,
_lana_, a narrow way between gardens and houses. Is it connected
with O.N. _leyna_, to hide, conceal?
Longande, belonging, A. 462.
Longed, belonged, B. 1090, 1747.
Lont, land, C. 322.
Lopen (_p.p._ of _lepe_, to leap), leapt, B. 990.
Lore, wisdom, learning, B. 1556. A.S. _lár_.
Lore, mode, wise, A. 236.
Lorn, lost, destroyed, B. 932.
Los, loss, B. 1589.
Lose, destroy, B. 909; C. 198; depart, be lost, A. 908.
Losed, lost, B. 586.
Losyng, perdition, B. 1031.
Losynger, _sb._ liar, deceiver. O.Fr. _losengier_.
{Lot, Lote,} sound, noise, roar, A. 876; C. 161, 183; word, B. 668.
Sw. _låta_, to sound; _låt_, sound; _låte_, cry, voice. A.S.
_hleóthor_, a sound, noise. O.E. _lud_, voice. The original form of
the word is _late_.
“Than have we liking to lithe (listen to) the _lates_ of the
foules.” --(K. Alex. p. 149.)
“(He) _late_ so lathely a _late_ and sa loude cried
That all the fest was aferd and othire folke bathe.”
--(K. Alex. p. 17.)
“He gaped, he groned faste, with grucchande _latez_.”
--(Morte Arthure, p. 90.)
Lote = late, countenance, feature, form, manner, A. 899; C. 47. This
word occurs in Laȝamon under the form _late_, looks, glances.
Glossarial remarks to Laȝamon, p. 449. _Lete_, countenance, is found
in the Owl and Nightingale, 35, 403. A.S. _wlite_. O.N. _læti_.
Lote, lot, A. 1205; C. 173.
Lote = lout, bow, A. 238. A.S. _lútan_, to bend, bow, stoop. Sw.
_luta_. See T. B. 1900.
Loþe, _sb._ sorrow, A. 377. A.S. _láth_, evil, harm.
Loþelych, wicked, bad, B. 1350.
Loute, abide, sit, A. 933.
Loute, bow, make obeisance. B. 798. See _Lote_.
Louande, praising, B. 1719.
Loue, praise, A. 285, 1124, 1127; B. 497, 987. A.S. _lofian_.
Loueȝ, hands, B. 987. N.Prov.E. _leuf_, palm of the hand, and hence
used for the hand itself. _Palm_ is used for the hand in early
English authors. O.N. _lofi_. Sc. _loof_.
“(He) held the letter in his _love_.” --(K. Alex. p. 71.)
“----he takis
The licor in his awen (one) _loove_,
the letter in the tothire.” --(_Ibid._ l. 2569.)
Loueloker, more lovely, A. 148.
Lovne, offer (advice), propose, C. 173. N.Prov.E. _loave_, _loff_, to
offer. O.N. _lofa_, promise, praise. Du. _looven_. Flem. _loven_,
estimate. Cf. “_Lovon_ and bedyn as chapmen, Licitor.” (Prompt.
Parv.)
Louy, love, B. 841, 1053.
{Louely, Louyely, Louyly, Louelych,} lovely, A. 565, 693; B. 1486.
Lowe, flame; “_luf lowe_,” flame of love, B. 707. O.E. _logh_ (see
T. B.
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