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nomblil (1155)

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nomblil (1155)

nombril,  nonbril;  noumbryl;  numblil,  numbril,  numbryl,  numbyl;  nunblil  (numbil  288.186 ),
(pl. nonbliz  (T) 423 numbilz  (Ch) 423)  
  FEW:  *umbiliculus 14,18a Gdf: GdfC:  omblil 10,230a TL: nombril 6,758 DEAF:  ombil  DMF:  nombril  TLF:  nombril  OED:  nombril n.  MED: DMLBS:

In all these forms the original word umblil (see umbil) has acquired an opening nasal through the attraction of the ‘n’ of the indefinite article (‘un’). For a similar process, involving the definite article (‘le’), see lumblil2. In addition, the central ‘l’ sometimes became assimilated to an ‘r’ or simply disappeared.

s.

anat.navel
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Sereinnes sunt monstres de mer, Des chiefs poent femes sembler, Peisson sunt del nomblil aval  737
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Me mettroie en aventure e mon corps en peril, De percer les costez, le flanc e le nombril  4381
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Jo ne pus morir fors par le noumbryl, ne estre naufrez  738-39
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et se doit on prendre del lard salé et pudrer de coriande et de luvesce ou de la semence et faire emplastre et lier sor le ventre avec lard et soz le nomblil  ii 89
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  vaut encontre lenteilhes et rongne et contre tossion du nonbril et du ventre  288.S104.6
( MS: c.1325 )  liez desure le numbyl auxi chaude cum humme le pouyt suffrer  127.442
fosse de nomblil
anat.hollow of the navel
( s.xiii2/4; MS: 1245 )  Item pur le fi que anguisse le numblil: Pernez un gros neir limaçun, si liez tut vif od une bende en la fosse del numblil, e quant il est mort e comence a defire, metez un aultre  119.112

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See also:

lumblil2  umbil 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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