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noeresse (s.xiiiex)

noeresse (s.xiiiex)

 
  FEW:  natare 7,39b Gdf:  noeor (noeresse) 5,511a GdfC: TL: nöerresse 6,702 DEAF: DMF:  noeresse  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  natrix 1889c

The word is attested only once in A-N, and appears in TLL without further context (as a gloss to natrix in John of Garland’s Latin Unus Omnium – a text which remains unpublished as a whole). The DMLBS’s entry for natrix defines the word as ‘a. snake, b. watersnake, c. blindworm and d. serpent’ (1889c). The Unus Omnium attestation is not included in the article.

However, the A-N word, appearing next to the words for ‘to swim’ and ‘swimmer’ suggests the sense ‘female swimmer’. The Latin for female swimmer would normally be natatrix (DMLBS 1888b), but its masculine counterpart natator (DMLBS 1888b) is attested in a similarly contracted form nator (DMLBS 1889c). Both of the possible senses (‘female swimmer’ vs. ‘water snake’) are supported by Gdf, TL and DMF. As a result and without any further context it is impossible to determine which applies to this particular citation.

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s.f.

femaleamph.female swimmer (possibly with reference to a water-snake)
( MS: s.xiiiex )  nato: noer / natrix  TLL ii 166

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See also:

noable  noer1  noiere  nou1 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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