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tau (c.1141)

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

tau (c.1141)

thau  (than (l. thau) thy)  
  FEW: Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  thau  DMF:  thau  TLF:  tau  OED:  tau n.  / taw n.1  MED:  tau n.  DMLBS:  tau 3376b
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1tau, the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex ) Si vous voilez savoir de lour A B C quelles letttres ils ount, ici les poez veer ovesqes les nouns qe ils les appellent: alpha, betha, gama, delta, ebrevis, elonge, epilmon, zetha, hetha (l. [t]hetha), iota, kapda, lapda, or, ni, exi, obrevis, pi, cophe, ro, summa, thau, vi, fy, chi, psi, othomega, diacosin  Mandeville 112
2tav, final letter of the Hebrew alphabet
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex ) Et si vous volez savoir les lettres qe les juys usent, elles sont tieles et sont les nouns si come ils les appellent escript par dessous: aleph, beth, gymel, deleth, he, van, zai, gy, thet, ioth, kaph, lampd, mem, num, sameth, ey, phe, sade, coph, fyr, son, than (l. thau)  Mandeville 235
3theol.t-shape (representing the arms of the cross)
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiiex ) Misericorde est la corde ki l’eskoche guie De l’arblaste de amur ke tau signefie. E verité de tere vent ki le arkil sus lie  Chant Chanz 966
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex ) pur ceo firent ils le pié (=of the cross of J.C.) de cedre, qar cedre ne porroit point [...]; et pur ceo firent ils le thy de la croiz de cipres q’est odourant aufin qe la flairour de soun corps ne grevast les trespassauntz  Mandeville 101
theol.t-shape (as the mark of the antichrist)
( c.1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) Un signe porterunt Cil ki en lui (=the antichrist) crerrunt; ‘Thau’ avra nun  Sibile 929

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