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
Nomen, seized, taken; _p.p._ of _nimme_, B. 1281; C. 360.
Norne, entreat, ask, B. 803. A.S. _gnornian_, to complain, murmur.
Norture, nurture, B. 1091.
Note, city, A. 922; B. 1233.
Note, devise, ordain, B. 1651; C. 220.
Note, device, purpose, A. 155; B. 381, 727. A.S. _nota_, use, duty,
employment; _notian_, to employ, use.
“The Bibel telles us openlye
Of Nembrot and his maistri,
Hou the fole that was wit him
Bigan to mak a tour that tim,
That suld reche to the lifte;
Bot Godd that skilfulli kan skift.
Mad them alle serely spekand,
That nan moht other understand,
And gert them lef thair wilgern werk,
Bot of thair _not_ yet standes merk,
In Babilony the tour ȝet standes,
That that folk mad wit thair handes.” --(Met. Hom. p. 61.)
“Mony noble for þe nonest to þe _note_ gode.” --(T. B. 284.)
Note, A. 879, 883.
Notyng, device, devising, B. 1354. See _Note_.
Noumbre, number, B. 1283, 1376.
Nouþe, now, C. 414.
Nowþelese, nevertheless, A. 889.
Noye, trouble, annoy, B. 1236.
{Noys, Noyse,} B. 849; C. 490.
Noȝt, naught, nothing, A. 520; B. 888; not, B. 106.
Noȝty, bad, B. 1359.
Nummen (_p.p._ _nimme_), taken, B. 1291; C. 76.
Nurne, speak, say, B. 669.
Nuye, displease, B. 578.
Nuyed, troubled, B. 1176.
{Nw, Nwe,} new, A. 527; anew, A. 1079.
Nwy, wrath, B. 301.
Nwyed, displeased, B. 306.
Nye, trouble, B. 1376; _nyes_, troubles, B. 1754; C. 76.
Nyed, troubled, B. 1603.
Nyf = ne if, if not, B. 424.
Nyl, ne wyl, will not, B. 1261; C. 41.
Nylt, ne wylt, wilt not, C. 346.
{Nym, Nymme,} take, B. 481. A.S. _niman_.
Nys, ne ys, is not, A. 951.
Nyse, nice, dainty, B. 824.
Nyteled, laboured, toiled, B. 888. Prov.E. _nattle_, to endeavour, to
be busy about trifles. O.E. _nyte_, to use, employ, enjoy. O.N.
_nyta_.
Nyȝe, nigh, B. 484; _wel nyȝe_, B. 704.
{Nyȝt, Nyȝte,} night, A. 243; B. 526.
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