toponym(the continent of) Africa:
(
s.xii1/3;
MS: s.xiiex
)
D’Afrike vient; bone est e chiere. D’Ethyope rest aportee E de Arabe o ele est nee
Lapid 55.670
(
s.xii2/4;
MS: c.1200
) Ele vient de Affrike et de Ethiope e de Arabie
Lapid 105.XXVI.10
(
MS: s.xii2/4
)
D'Affrique i ad un Affrican venut, Ço est Malquiant, le filz al rei Malcud
Roland 1550
(
c.1259;
MS: c.1259
) Ceste terre [...] ki Aufrike est apelee, e est la terce part du mund, ambrace munt de Inde e de Mauretainne e de Egipte [...]
Iter paris 140
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Affrique (s.xii1/3)