[poentable] (s.xiii4/4)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

Search Results

Your search results will appear here.

Entry Log

Clear

The form pountable is a cross reference to the following entry:

[poentable] (s.xiii4/4)

Cite this entry

[ gdw]

  FEW:  *expaventare 3,304a Gdf:  poentable 6,241b GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  espoenter (*)  DMF:  poentable  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
pountable  

This Anglo-Norman gloss to a thirteenth-century text of Claudian’s De Raptu Proseprinae preserves a rare aphetic form of espoentable.

a.

1emotionfrightening, terrifying, terrible: 
( MS: s.xiii4/4 )  terribilis: pountable / mugitibus: mugicemens  ii 11
espoentable 
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.
pountable