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[minuit] (s.xii1)
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The form myenoete is a cross reference to the following entry:

[minuit] (s.xii1)

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mienuit,  mienuite,  mienut,  mienuyt;  mineot,  minut,  minute,  minuyt;  myenoet,  myenoete,  myenoit,  myenuit,  myenuyt,  myneut,  mynuit,  mynut,  mynute,  mynuyt  
  FEW:  nox 7,215b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  minuit 10,156b TL: mïenuit 6,23 DEAF:  muit (mïenuit)  DMF:  minuit  TLF:  minuit  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

Often preceded by a direct article, suggesting that the word may still have been understood as two separate substantives: la mi (de) nui

s.

timemidnight: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Le cors sun fiz ke au lyt just Revesqui entur la mynut  S Fran ANTS 6930
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Aprés la mynute les veyllanz Furent trovez en dormanz  boz Three Saints 53.199
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  survint une voiz a nous nageantz en Drie, entour la my nuit  Actes (B) 225a
( 1396; MS: s.xivex )  il est deja bien pres une heure aprés mynuyt  Man lang ANTS 42.36
♦timethe deep of night: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Mie nuit est passez, le jur est aprochez  Rom Chev ANTS 5077
a, en (la) minuit
timeat midnight: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  La hore estoit en la mienuyt (var. a la myenuyt), la plus dure hore ke soit  Mirour Egl 58.8
( 1256; MS: c.1300 )  Nus Crestiens le (=the day) començun A mi nut, par la reisun Ke nostre Sire Jhesu Crist A mi nut nestre se fist  RAUF ANTS 430 and 432
♦timein the deep of night: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) En mie la nuit m'esdreçowe a regehir a tei  Oxf Ps ANTS 117.118.62
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Il levat sus en mie nuit, Quant en le ostel dormirent tuit  S Clem ANTS 4285
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E il se leva en mie nut Devant matines, cum fere dut  Mir N-D 116.35
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  il ne leva poynt al mye nuyt a dire ses matyns  BOZ Cont 186

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See also:

mi1  midnyȝt  nuit1 
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