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nuiter (s.xii3/4)

nuiter (s.xii3/4)

nuitier,  nuter,  nutier,  nuyter  
  FEW:  nox 7,214b Gdf:  nuitier 5,546a GdfC: TL: nuitier 6,906 DEAF: DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  noctare 1920c

Instances of la nuiter may well be read as l’anuiter. However, there are enough attestations of the verb/substantive without the prefix to consider it a genuine form.

v.intrans.

to spend, stay the night
( s.xiiiex )  ount graunté [...] a doner a le vauntdist mon Sire Roberd, chescun jour de sa venue a son maner de Wymundham, a demorer, a manger ou a nuter, e chescun jour taunt come il demort, quatre payns conventuels [...]  Whethamstede 328

sbst. inf.

timenightfall, evening time
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Il enchace le roy Daire desqu'al nuiter (var. (C: s.xiiim) tresques al anutiertresq’al nuitier )  Rom Chev ANTS 2016
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Kuant il vint al nutier, et li soleil esconsees, Tote troi coiemant de la cité sunt hastees  Dest Rome1 1132
( 1297 )  Puis mesme le jour a la nuyter [...]  Crisis 126
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Ce funt chescun jour desque au nuter  Genèse 426

p.pr. as s.

nuitant
nuitant

[gdw]

See also:

anuiter  nuit1  nuital  nuitance  nuitant  nuitantement  nuitantre  nuitantrement  nuitee  ranuiter 
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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