This otherwise unattested term for ‘antelope’ seems to have beenbe a compound created from parti (p.p. partir ‘particoloured, variegated’ and pol
from
pullus 2 ‘the young of a horse, foal, colt’ (DMLBS 2569b), though this form is unknown in pulle.
(
s.xivin; MS: s.xivm
)
Antalop (ed. Autalop)(var. (B: c.1330) La partipol) est un beste coynt e viste e de gentil manere [...] E tant com il est rongeant les burgeouns de ces foilles, il est gueyté del venour [...]
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partipol (c.1330)