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nu1 (1113-19)

nu1 (1113-19)

nou,  now;  nud,  nut  (nuche  TLL II 100.69 );
pl. nouis,  noutz,  noys,  nuz  (ners  Bedford Inventories B67)  
  FEW:  nodus 7,171 Gdf: GdfC:  neu 10,201b TL: no 1 6,667 DEAF: DMF:  noeud  TLF:  noeud  OED:  node n.  / nodule n.  MED:  node n.  / nodule n.  DMLBS:  nodus 1 1923b

The word can be problematic in that it consists almost entirely of a set of minims that are prone to possible misreading. For example, in the Horn citation, ‘nu’ is a variant of ‘coing’, and was therefore glossed in AND1 as ‘peak, ornamental knob (of helmet)’. This particular sense, however, is not found in any of the other dictionaries, making one wonder whether the el nu could be an editorial mistake for el (=en le) mi (although that construction, rather than en mi, appears to be rare in Anglo-Norman).

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1knot, tie
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Deus granz choses seignent Cil qui cest signe (=capricorn) peignent: Chef de chevere devant, Cue de serpent grant, E en mi un nud peinent Pur quei devise seignent  Comput ANTS 1771
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  il ne vout pas sa ceynture en remembraunce noer (var. (B: c.1330) a seynture en remembraunce now fere), ne anel de or [ne d'argent] en son deie porter  BOZ Cont 98.n4
knot (in the strands of a scourge)
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  moelt parfond en la tendre char entroient les dures noutz (=of scourges)  Sz Med1 201
2bot.knot, gnarl in wood
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  un bastun ke esteyt pleyn de nuz  Boeve 1163
bot.node (in the stem)
( MS: s.xiiim )  Si pernez aprés .j. festu a .ij. nous et coupez les nous  Rom 32 (O.1.20) 82
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Les roseaus (=reeds) i (=in India) sunt si granz ke entre chescun nou poet home fere un auge ke poet porter treis homes sur euue, sicum un batel  Liv Regions 28
3anat.joint
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  quisez le malade el braz trois dois ariere le nois (Latin: retro a nodo)  A-N Med i 82.xlv
4med.pharm.sachet containing a medicinal preparation (and secured by a knot)
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  la dulur de[s] denz e des gencives faites une quichun en la funteinele derere en la char qui est dereire l'oraille e en ce metez un petit nu (Latin: nodellus (de cera vel radice absinthi))  A-N Med i 59.lii
5armourdecor.mil.peak, ornamental knob (of helmet)
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Qu'il grant cop ne ferist el coing (var. (H: s.xiiim) (l. mi??) el nu mi?? ) del heaume agu  Horn 3130
6archit.cog (of a mill-wheel)
( MS: s.xiii )  scarioballa: lé nus de la ré, anglice cockes  TLL ii 150.48
( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) scarioballa: (D*) lé nouis, coggis (var. (L: s.xiii) noys radii, quidam nodi in rota interiori qui movent fusum molendini;  (D: s.xiii/xiv) cogges, alisons, aleçuns )  TLL 134.48

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See also:

nueillon  nuel  nuer1  nuet1  nuus 
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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