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busson (1121-35)

The form boisun is a cross reference to the following entry:

busson (1121-35)

boisson,  boissun,  boisun,  bosçoun ;  buisoun,  buisson,  buissun,  buisum,  buisun;  buschon,  bushoun,  busschon,  busschoun,  busshoun,  bussoun,  busszoun,  bussun,  busun;  (bisson  9.20 bossin  21-22 Ed I 113 boysonne  3749)  
  FEW:  *bosk- 15/i,196a Gdf: GdfC:  bouisson 8,353a TL: buisson 1,1200 DEAF:   bois (buisson)  DMF:  buisson  TLF:  buisson  OED: MED: DMLBS:  busso 229a

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1treesbot.bush
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Cest buissun est numé En griu 'erechine'  779
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  se musçad [...] En un buissun  1826
( MS: c.1250 )  hec frutex, rubus vel dumus: boissun  i 427
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  meuz chaunte mauviz (M.E. throstel) en busson (M.E. bosc)  715
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  il vist devant lui un busson arder  26.16
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 )  Le vent vente par my le brousson (M.E. bussh)  5.12
prov.(= 'Half a loaf is better than no bread')
( MS: s.xii4/4 )  Desoz petit boisson abri atent l’em  12.333
2treesgeog.bot.(pl.) bushes, brier-patch, thicket
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Entur la valee, es busuns, En treis leus mist ses compainuns  409
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Asaartent boisuns e bois  386rubr
( MS: s.xiii )  sentibus: .i. bussuns  i 65
( 1285 )  issi q’il n’i eit fosse, suthboys ou bussuns ou l’em peut tapir  i 97
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Se prist a les mountaynes, se tynt en les bosçouns  ii 58
( MS: s.xiiiex )  dumetis: (C) en bussuns (var. (Hb: s.xiii2) buschons; (A: s.xv2) busshi place)  i 336
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  vepribus: bussuns  ii 87
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  frutecta: (T) bossuns  ii 39
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