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FEW: locus *5,391bGdf: ∅GdfC: ∅TL: ∅DEAF: lieu (*)DMF: ∅TLF: ∅OED: ∅MED: ∅DMLBS: ∅
a.
middle, not the oldest or the youngest:
(
c.1260; MS: c.1300
)
Un prudhome [...] donne a son menuel fiz partie de sa terre
Casus Plac 30
s.
1intermediate one:
(
1309
)
la veist .iij. peires de fourches (=gallows) et chescun plus haut de autre, et en le plus court son ael pendre, et en le meunel (l. menuel)(var. mulvuen (l. mulwen ) mulwein; mylven (l. myluen ) milou) son pere pendre
YBB Ed II ii 117
♦one who is neither the oldest or the youngest:
(
1292
)
Ausi, si vous volet dire ‘Nent par Jon le eyné’, dites ‘par Jon le menué ou par un autre’
YBB 20-21 Ed I 291
minuel (c.1260)