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puier2 (1174-75)

puier2 (1174-75)

poer,  pouer;  puer  
  FEW:  *appodiare *25,41b Gdf:  puier 1 6,459a GdfC: TL: puiier 7,2053 DEAF: DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

Despite its semantic and etymological overlap with puier1, these senses are treated separately here as distinctive of what seems to be the aphetic form of apuier (rather than a verbal derivative of pui1).

v.intrans.

puier a
to lean on, against
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  la u il iert estant, [...] a un kernel puiant  FANT OUP 1369
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  Textor terestris eques es, qui duarum streparum adnitens (glosses: (D) pouant) (var. (L: xiii/xiv) apuant) apodiamento, [equum] admittit assidue, exili tamen contentum dieta  TLL i 184.72 and ii 72.72

v.refl.

to lean out of a window
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Savaris est montés en somet en la tour Et Garins de Pavye et maint altre de lour; Devers la mer sei puerent dedenz la Miraour (=name of a castle-tower) - La lune lussoient cler un poi devant le jour - Et voient le grant ost de la gent payenour  Dest Rome1 675
se puier a, sur
1to lean on
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  si se apua (var. (O: s.xiii3/4) se pua) Sur sun bastun  Pet Plet ANTS 87 (var.)
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xivm )  et come il se pouereit au dit baston, il debrusa en dieux pieces  Rich I 5.6
to lean out of
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Gui en une tur munta, En halt as estres se pua; Le pais envirun ad esgardé  Gui War 7570
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  La femme pas ne s'ublia: Entra dedenz e l'us ferma; A la fenestre s'apuia (var. (D: 1272-82) se poia ), Sun seignur par iloec gueita  Chastoiement Pere1 1623 (var.)
2fig.to concentrate on, incline to
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  L'arcevesque Thomas tut avant s'en ala. La cruiz arceveskal il meismes porta; Nul ne la volt baillier, car forment se duta. Desur un banc s'asist, e a Deu s'apuia (var. (P: s.xiii1) se puia). En sa main tint la cruiz  Becket1 1689 (var.)

p.p. as a.

leaning, resting
( MS: s.xiii1 )  appodientur: seint poé, apoé  TLL 100.68

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See also:

apuier  puail  pui1  puiement  puier1  suppuier 
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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