e. "relent," a.f. "relenter"

E. "Relent," A.F. "Relenter"Author(s): J. DerocquignySource: The Modern Language Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan., 1913), p. 96Published by: Modern Humanities Research AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3712661 .

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Miscellaneous Notes Miscellaneous Notes

p. 27. Made sign of, quoted in N.E.D. (It b) ' show or pretence of something'. (the earliest quotation), rendering F. 'fist semblance de.'

p. 28. The Saturday, in: 'they accurse all those that abstain them to eat Flesh the Saturday,' F. 'le samedy.'

p. 42. Foss(e) of Memnon (the earliest instance offosse): F. 'fosse.' ib. verres.

p. 48. Those be at his wages: F. 'sunt a sez gages.' p. 52. Orient, adj. (N.E.D. gives the French original: 'ccc perles

d'orient'). p. 101. prepuce (the earliest instance in N.E.D.). Maundeville's junk or rush of the sea in fact renders F. 'jonc marin,'

and elsewhere 'jonc de la mer.' Now E. Rolland (Flore populaire, IV. p. 80) gives jonc marin as

a synonym of 'gen8t dpineux,' Ulex europaeus. He adds (p. 89) the

following piece of information which tallies with Maundeville's descrip- tion of the crown of thorns: 'Les petits garqons qui font leur premiere communion, le jour de la c6r6monie se rendent k l'6glise, la tete couronnee de cette plante, en m6moire de J6sus-Christ. Pujet, pres Frj us, Var.'

So, instead of being explained as 'a rush' or 'a species of juncus,' junk or rush of the sea, or sea-rush should be defined 'firze, gorse or whin.'

J. DEROCQUIGN Y. LILLE.

E. 'RELENT,' A.F. 'RELENTER.'

The N.E.D. does not know the immediate source of E. relent, '1. to melt under the influence of heat.'

The word relenter occurs in an Anglo-French text of the 13th

century, La Vision de Tondale (Tnudgal), textes franqais, anglo- normand et irlandais, p.p, V. H. Friedel et Kuno Meyer, Paris, Champion, 1907:

Sur ceo feer les almes lez maufez font poser, Et en ceo graunt puer les estut arder, Et auxi comme la gresez en paeil relenter.

11. 190-3 (p. 76).

The original Latin, by Marcus, an Irishman, has: 'donec ad modum cremii in sartagine concretnati liquescerent.'

J. DEROCQUIGNY. LILLE.

p. 27. Made sign of, quoted in N.E.D. (It b) ' show or pretence of something'. (the earliest quotation), rendering F. 'fist semblance de.'

p. 28. The Saturday, in: 'they accurse all those that abstain them to eat Flesh the Saturday,' F. 'le samedy.'

p. 42. Foss(e) of Memnon (the earliest instance offosse): F. 'fosse.' ib. verres.

p. 48. Those be at his wages: F. 'sunt a sez gages.' p. 52. Orient, adj. (N.E.D. gives the French original: 'ccc perles

d'orient'). p. 101. prepuce (the earliest instance in N.E.D.). Maundeville's junk or rush of the sea in fact renders F. 'jonc marin,'

and elsewhere 'jonc de la mer.' Now E. Rolland (Flore populaire, IV. p. 80) gives jonc marin as

a synonym of 'gen8t dpineux,' Ulex europaeus. He adds (p. 89) the

following piece of information which tallies with Maundeville's descrip- tion of the crown of thorns: 'Les petits garqons qui font leur premiere communion, le jour de la c6r6monie se rendent k l'6glise, la tete couronnee de cette plante, en m6moire de J6sus-Christ. Pujet, pres Frj us, Var.'

So, instead of being explained as 'a rush' or 'a species of juncus,' junk or rush of the sea, or sea-rush should be defined 'firze, gorse or whin.'

J. DEROCQUIGN Y. LILLE.

E. 'RELENT,' A.F. 'RELENTER.'

The N.E.D. does not know the immediate source of E. relent, '1. to melt under the influence of heat.'

The word relenter occurs in an Anglo-French text of the 13th

century, La Vision de Tondale (Tnudgal), textes franqais, anglo- normand et irlandais, p.p, V. H. Friedel et Kuno Meyer, Paris, Champion, 1907:

Sur ceo feer les almes lez maufez font poser, Et en ceo graunt puer les estut arder, Et auxi comme la gresez en paeil relenter.

11. 190-3 (p. 76).

The original Latin, by Marcus, an Irishman, has: 'donec ad modum cremii in sartagine concretnati liquescerent.'

J. DEROCQUIGNY. LILLE.

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