noter2 (1271-72)
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noter2 (1271-72)

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[ gdw]

[ FEW: 7,246b nutatio; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 1956a nutare ]
 

The verb is unique to this attestation, and its creation may have been prompted by the use of the word nutare in the Latin source. Related forms, listed in the FEW (nutation and nutant) appear in Continental French, but only from the eighteenth century onwards.

v.a.

1to make totter, cause to sway: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Kar touz les pels (=stake, used in practicing battle)) esteient fichez en terre de touz les jovenes chivalers, issi ke il nes peussent noter e ke par force aparroient par pez (Latin: defigebantur in terram ita ut nutare non possent et sex pedibus eminerent)  14.20
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