nuldur (s.xii1)

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nuldur (s.xii1)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: ; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  neither adv. (and conj.), pron. and a.; MED:  neither conj.; DMLBS: ]
nuldor,  nuldorre,  nuldour,  nuldure,  nuledure;  nuder,  nudour,  nudur  

The word is a lexicalized form of the phrase nul dur (see dur1), which literally means ‘no hand’s breadth’, but became generalized to ‘none at all’. The word is common in Anglo-Norman (possibly under influence of the English word neither?), but is not found in Continental French.

adv.

1(with a negative) (not)... either
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Bone ne male n'est dit nul dur Itele manere de pour  6953
( 1292 )  Ne la eveske ne fut nent amercyé, ne le priour nuldour  20-21 Ed I 207
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  ne gisez mie en peis, ne ne seez nuldur (var. (BN: s.xivin) nudur) pur veer ke il veut fere  14.16
( 1297 )  [...] de l'assise de la foreste, qe n'est pas gardé ausi com ele soleyt estre sca en arrere, ne la chartre de la forest nuldour  98.52
nuldur (ne)... ne...
1neither..., nor...
( s.xii1; MS: s.xiiim ) Kar ele ne crent nul dur ne lance ne espee  42
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  tresor Ne trovai, nuldur d'argent ne d'or  1324
( 1260; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  il ly appent nuder encoupement ne defens  202
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  la serve gent Ke ne sunt rien obedient Nul dure a persone ne a prestre  10801
( 1294 )  ou ke yl est fyz e nent heyr, ou ke yl nudour fyz ne heyr  21-22 Ed I 517

s.?

1(with a negative) (not)... either
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 ) Mais cele ewage est meldre ke nul dure, ne trop obscure ne trop clere n’est, mais de tempree culur et purpre  100.X.6
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Folx est [...] Ki ainz respond k'il ait oi; Ne set ke parole ne a ki, Kar il nen entent a nuli. Queor e boche ad si adiré N'ad sur nuldorre poesté  10892
nul#1  dur1 
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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