Amazone (s.xiiiin)

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Amazone (s.xiiiin)

[ FEW: 24,397b Amazon; Gdf: ; GdfC: 8,97c amazone; TL: ; DEAF:  amazone; DMF:  amazone; TLF:  amazone; OED:  Amazon n.; MED:  Amazones n.pl.; DMLBS: 74c Amazo /74c Amazonicus ]
Amazon,  Amazun  

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1demonymfemaleAmazon, one of a race of female warriors in Scythia
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Amazones ne unt nul barum (sic), Entre eles ne ad si femme nun  9249
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Amazunie si est une regione partie en Asye et partie en Europe, si est pres de Albanie. E si est issi apelee aprés les Amazuns. Les Amazons furent jadis de Gothland. Si issirent hors de la basse Sithie e vol[ei]ent terre conquere sur autres genz ke furent lur veisins  11
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