demonymAfrican, one who inhabits or originates form Africa:
(
MS: s.xii2/4
)
D'Affrique i ad un Affrican venut, Ço est Malquiant, le filz al rei Malcud
Roland 1550
(
s.xiiex;
MS: s.xiii3/3?
)
Ore sunt ensemble li chevaler vaillant, Roillent lur armes cume fuldre qui fent [...] Forment les dutent Arabi e Persant, Les Melians e Turc e Affricant
Otinel 1834
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
De ceste femme engendra A. Set fiz aprés, ceo sunt li Affrican
Anc Test (B) 641
(
1214-16;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
Agolaunt assembla mout de gens dount il est nul numbres, kar il out Sarazyns e Mores e Moabites, Turs, Affricans, Perseys, Ethiopiens
Turpin 300
(
c.1334;
MS: s.xivm
)
le Sessouns habitauntz en Engleterre [...] alerent apres Gormound, roi de Affrik, qi estoit doncs venuz en Yrlaunde, et l'amenerent en Engleterre ové son ost cent et sesaunte mil de Affricans
TREVET Cron1 194.22
1demonymAfrican, who inhabits or originates form Africa:
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Ainz nus livra Rodmund, [i]cel rei affricanz
Horn 297
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
des evesqes affricans qui por la fei defendre parlerent aprés lor langues trenchees
Dial Greg SATF 22.XXXII
♦
demonym
of African manufacture, provenance:
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Un corn prist de bugle, dunt la liste iert gemméé [...] Si iert d'or affrican merveilles bien ovréé
Horn 4155
2
toponym
of Africa:
(
c.1170;
MS: s.xiiiex
)
Rollac vint devant els, surquidé e preisaunt: N'i out meillor vassal el regné affricant
Horn 2990
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