quicunque (1140-60)

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quicunque (1140-60)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1464b qui; Gdf: 6,511b qui (quiconque); GdfC: ; TL: 8,91 quiconque; DEAF:  qui (quiconque); DMF:  quiconque; TLF:  quiconque; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: 2627b quicumque ]
kiconkes,  kiconque,  kicunque,  kikonkes,  kikueunques,  kikunques,  kiqueunkes;  kikunke;  qicomque,  qiconq,  qiconqe,  qiconqes,  qiconque,  qiconques,  qicumqe,  qicumque,  qicunqe,  qicunque,  qikonqe;  quiconqe,  quiconqes,  quiconque,  quiconques,  quicouncqe,  quicounque,  quicumque,  quicunke,  quicunkes,  quicunqe,  quicunqes,  quicunque,  quicunques,  quikunque,  quiqonc,  quiqonque,  quiqunke,  quiqunqe,  quiqunqes,  quiqunques,  quiquonc,  quiquonque,  quiconqui  i 866 quicsique  

While the etymon of this form is Latin qui + cumque, the word often seems to have been reinterpreted as qui + que­ + unc, and many variants seem to reflect this (e.g. quiqunke may also be interpreted as qui q’unke). Whereas (apparently) straightforward instances of qui que unc or qui unc have been interpreted as locutions under quique and qui1 respectively, most such attestations or spellings are listed here as variants (or deviants) of quicunque.

As with qui1 and que1, quicunque and quecunque have been separated, although semantically they overlap completely. There must have been further confusion in medieval times with quelcunques, which, again, has similar senses.

pr.indef.

1whoever, any person who
( MS: 1155-60 )  Ceste est la feiz commune, laquele quicunkes fedeilement e fermement ne crerrad, salfs estre ne purrad (Latin: Haec est fides catholica, quam nisi quisque fideliter firmiterque crediderit, salvus esse non poterit)  292.42
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 )  ikunques icez establissemenz as seinz humes e le nostre devisement enfreindrad [...]  267.68
( MS: s.xiii2 )  Quicumque vout entrer en lur estable si enmeine lur hane (=donkey)  356
( 1400; MS: s.xv1 )  Et qiconque die le contraire de ce desuis escript [...], il ne seut my bien de nous ne dit voir  114.64.55
(as an indirect object) whomever, any person who
( s.xiii1/3; MS: c.1255 )  Quiqunques l'avrat fait honur, Il lui rendra, seez aseur  (P) 191
( c.1356 )  ci deit le bailif par assignement des jurés prendre une wythirname sur qiconque vienge de la dite vile ou cité  17
2whatever, anything which
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Par tant porron savoir, ço quit, Qe quiqonc fait as sainz honour Molt le doit faire od grant poour  2495
quicunque vult
1theol.liturgicalAthanasian Creed (which opens with the word 'Quicumque vult...')
( 1267; MS: s.xiiiex )  De les articles de la fey ke sunt cuntenuz en quicsiquevult  (E) 57r
( MS: c.1400 )  Li malade dira [...] par .ix. jours cest psalme: Quicunque vult  73.T55
quicunque il (etc.) seit
1whoever may be
( 1303 )  se aucun, ou pluseur, qiconqes il fussent, voleint despointer, empeschier, ou troubler les ditz Rois  i 954

a.

1what(so)ever, any (sort of)
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Car ke onkes (var. (BN: s.xivin) kikonkes) hom en mond enprent nule chose resonable a fere, e le voue a Deu, il se lie a ceo fere  165.18
( 1295 )  les gentz de nostre roiaume [...] ou quicunque persones, clerks ou lays, de quele condition ou estate qu'il soient  i 822
( 1297 )  E tutes citiez [...] du reaume quiqu'il seient e de quiqunqe tenure ou franchise  112.96
( c.1356 )  Et soleiount lez .xxxii. baronz [...] avoir la table a destre main le Roi en la sale, [...] en qicumque leu qe lez baronz dé cynk ports sount grantés od lui manger  27
( MS: 1419 )  Ne qe nulle puletere, n'autre quicunqes, ne mette a vente nulle manere de pulletrie qe soit corupt ou a corps del homme noun seyn  465
quecunque  qui#1  quique 
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