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rai3 (1155)

rai3 (1155)

rae,  raie,  ray,  raye  (raia  Aelfric Gloss 46.117)  
  FEW:  raja 10,34b Gdf:  rai 4 6,558c GdfC:  raie 2 10,475a TL: raie 2 8,185 DEAF:  raie 1   / raie 1 (rai)  DMF:  rai 2   / raie 2  TLF:  raie 2  OED:  ray n.3  MED:  rai(e n.  DMLBS:  racha 3 2645b

s.

ich.ray, skate, broad flat fish
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Saint Augustin [...] la lei Deu lur (=people of Dorchester) anuncia. Cil [...] De sun sermun ne orent cure; [...] A se dras detriés li pendeient Cues de raies qu’il aveient  Brut WACE 13724
( MS: s.xiii )  ragadie: raes  TLL ii 152.72
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  du solail issent les rais Et de la mer veinent les raies (var. (T: s.xivin) rays)  BIBB ROTH (G) 841
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  En la mere nouent lé rais  (M.E. in the see swymmun rays)  Nominale 328
( 1396; MS: s.xivex )  ordennez que nous aions de bon poisson assés, comme des anguilles, [...] estorjoun et turbiller, rais, tendal, [...]  Man lang ANTS 43.36
( 1435-36 )  .iiijc. de rayes  Port Bk foster 78

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