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feuner (s.xii1/3)
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feuner (s.xii1/3)

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feduner;  founer,  foyner  
  FEW:  *feto 3,487a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  feoner 9,609b TL: fëoner 3,1724 DEAF:  feon (feoner)  DMF:  faonner  TLF:  faonner  OED:  fawn v.2  MED:  faunen v.2  DMLBS:  feonare 921c

v.trans.

to give birth to: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Sacez que la leune Sun feun mort feune  Best ants 364

v.intrans.

to give birth: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Pur ce qu’ele (= woman who drinks an infusion of crystal) ait founé Senés avra de lait plenté  Lapid 222.571
♦mammalszool.to produce a litter, have young: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  La semence que dune Sis males (=of the weasel), dunt feune, En sa buche receit, En tel guise conceit  Best ants 1224
( 1219-21; MS: s.xivin )  les berbis e les chevres founent deus feze par an  Terre Sarazins Sum 195
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  en yver les (=swine) sustenez q’il ne perissent, e q’il eyent pouer de foyner (var. purceller; fower; forner)  HENLEY2 334

p.pr. as s.

mammalszool.ewe in lamb: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  E eslist David le suen serf e susleva lui des fulcs des oeilles; d'aprés les fedunanz (Latin: fetantes) reçut lui  Oxf Ps ANTS 90.77.76

p.p. as s.

mammalszool.ewe that has lambed: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Siwant les feunées (Latin: fetas) amenad lui, que il poust Jacob le pueple de lui, e Israel la heredité de lui  Camb Ps 144.LXXVII.71

See also:

feun  feunable  feuneisun  feunement  feunissement  feunus 
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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