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surdet (c.1275)
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surdet (c.1275)

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  FEW:  surdus 12,453b Gdf:  sourder 1 7,526a GdfC: ∅ TL: sorder 1 9,883 DEAF:  sort 2 (sorder)  / sort 2 (sordet)  DMF:  sourder 1  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

The suffix -et may have been added to create a rhyme with muet. The resulting word can be interpreted as an adnominally used past participle form of the verb *surder, 'to deafen', otherwise not attested in Anglo-Norman.

a.

deafened, unable to hear: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) Fraunceus ala cum surdet, Nul mot sona cum fust muet  S Fran ANTS 533

[gdw]

See also:

surd1  surdeisson  surdesce 
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