Tag: 1300 – 1399

ETYMOLOGY
Middle English from Old French destrobler, ‑troubler, from des-, Latin dis- + trobler, troubler (to trouble)

EXAMPLE
“… Debonairly, and nothing loude,
He sayde, `I prey thee, be not wrooth,
I herde thee not, to sayn the sooth,
Ne I saw thee not, sir, trewely.’
`A! goode sir, no fors,’ quod I,
`I am right sory if I have ought
Destroubled yow out of your thought;
Foryive me if I have mistake.’
`Yis, th’amendes is light to make,’
Quod he, `for ther lyth noon ther-to;
Ther is nothing missayd nor do,’
Lo! how goodly spak this knight,
As it had been another wight; …”

From: The Book of the Duchesse
By Geoffrey Chaucer, c1369

ETYMOLOGY
noun: from Anglo-Norman desclandre, desclaundre, disclaunder, disclaundre (slander, slanderous statement, scandal, public outrage)
verb: from disclander (noun)

EXAMPLE (for vb. 1.)
“… Þis gode men with ioie inov : heore leue of him heo nome,
And þannes heo wenden sone i-nouȝ : to þe court of rome.
Þare neren heo nouȝt faire onder-fonge : for þe bischopes comen bi-fore
And desclaundreden seint thomas : þat he was fals and for-suore.
Ake naþeles þe grace heo hadden : þat to þe pope heo miȝten go.
him-sulue heo tolden in priuete : al seint thomases wo: …”

From: Laud Manuscript, c1300
In The Early South-English Legendary ; or, Lives of Saints
Edited by Carl Horstmann, 1887

ETYMOLOGY
Middle English from Old French dutus, dotus, doutous;
from modern French douteux, from doute (doubt n.)

EXAMPLE 1 ( for adj. 1)
“…no for al is moch honoure
þat he ne worþ wel sone dede
Þe eiȝt dai so is dotus 
and þat ful wel þou salt se
ful of tene and angus …”

From: Early English Poems and Lives of Saints with those of the wicked birds Pilate and Judas
Edited by Frederick James Furnivall, 1862
‘Fifteen Signs before Judgment‘, a1300

EXAMPLE 2 (for adj. 1)
“… And she said to hym: ‘My swete frend̛, yf it were possyble, soo wold I fayne doo, but it may not be. And wete it wel, that my departyng fro you is more gryeuous & doubtous a thousand tymes to me than to you, but it is the wyƚƚ & playsire of hym that can do & vndoo al thinges.’ and, with these wordes, she embraced & kyssed hym fuƚƚ tenderly, sayeng: ‘Farwel, myn owne lord & husbond̛; Adieu, myn herte, & al my joye; Farwel, my loue, & al myn wele …”

From: Melusine
By Jean d’Arras, c1500
(Published by Early English Text Society, 1895)