tonner1 (c.1290)
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tonner1 (c.1290)

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[FEW: *3,329b *extonare; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF:  tonner; DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED:  tounen v.; DMLBS: ∅]
touner  

This verb may be an aphetic form of estoner1

v.n.

1(of a limb) to go numb, be asleep: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Ore ne suffrez mon pee toune (M.E. slepeth)  588
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 )  F. dit moun pee tonne (M.E. my fote sleputh)  8.209
estoner#1 
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