couarder (s.xii2/4)
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couarder (s.xii2/4)

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  FEW:  cauda 2/i,524a Gdf:  coarder 2,164b GdfC: ∅ TL: cöarder 2,508 DEAF:  cöe (cöarder)  DMF:  couarder  TLF:  couard  OED:  coward v.  MED:  couarden v.  DMLBS: ∅
cuarder  

v.a.

1 to make a coward of: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  vous n’averez ja garde De ceo ke tant vus cuarde  87.43

v.n.

1 to be, act like a coward: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  La quarte prist Hoel en guarde, Walwein od lui, ki ne cuarde  12368
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 )  l'en jetoit desor les chiefs As cristiens [...] Grantdimes fustz qu[e] il lançouent, Quil n’alouent pas coardant  3797
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Q’alons nos donqes couardant Com poourous desesperez?  1024
♦ to become cowardly, fearful: 
( MS: s.xiiiex )  tut le quer me couarde Despuys ke passay le pount  244

v.refl.

1 to become cowardly, fearful: 
( MS: s.xii2/4 )  Mal seit del coer ki el piz se cuardet!  1108
couard  couardie  couardise  acouarder  encouarder 
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