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geneveis (c.1259)

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

geneveis (c.1259)

geneveise,  geneveys;  genevois,  genevoiz,  genevoys;  geneweys;  janeveys,  janevois,  janewais,  janeways;  janneois,  janneys,  jannois,  janueis,  janueys,  janvois;  jeneveys,  jenevois,  jenevoys  (gennenois (l. gennevois)  Foedera1 iii 137 gennenoiz (l. gennevoiz))  
  FEW:  Genua *4,112b Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF:  genevois  TLF: OED:  Genevois n.1  MED: DMLBS:  Januensis 1500b

a.

demonymGenoese, from Genoa
( 1383 )  Salvant toutdys, qe bien lise as merchantz janeveys, veniciens, et autres, de carier leynes, et pealx lanutz vers le West, come ils soloient faire devant ceste heure  Rot Parl1 iii 159
( 1389 )  une nief [...] fuist fretté e chargee a la Rochele par diverses marchantz jenevois de vyns e de fer pur venir en Engleterre  TNA SC 8/300/14999

s.

demonymGenoese, a native or inhabitant of Genoa
( 1343-50 )  Et a le houre Phelip de Valoys avoit assemblé si graunt host par dela de chescun nacioun, Baskeles, Bydouwers, Spaynolfs, Geneveises, et de plusours autre regiouns  Cron Lond1 91.13
( 1347 )  les Gennenoiz (l. Gennevoiz), et touz les autres soubgiés, alliez, coadjuteurs  Foedera1 iii 137
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  l’isle de Crete qe ly empereres dona jadis as Janewais  Mandeville 117
( 1378 )  Pur Geneweys, Veneciens, et autres  Rot Parl1 iii 48
( 1393-94 )  qe les ditz Normantz quant ils viegnent puissent recharger illoeqes ové leyns, come font les ditz Jeneveys, et Arragoneys  Rot Parl1 iii 322
tur as, de Geneveis
toponym Genoese tower, fortified tower in the Genoese Quarter of Acre
( c.1259; MS: c.1259 ) le chastel le roi de Acre, la tur as Geneveis (written over an erasure, so possibly originally referring to another tower), la tur de Genevois, le temple  Iter paris 136

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See also:

Janue 
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gennenois