Middle English Vocabulary Education October 6-10

1) Peregall (adj.) - Equal.

Everyche other through great vyolence
By very force bare other unto grounde,
As full ofte it happeth and is founde,
Whan stronge doth mete with his /peregall/.

- Lydgate’s Troye, 1555

3it ther were any of power more than hee,
Or /peregalle/ unto his degre.

- Lydgate, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134

Pronunciation: /pErEgAl/

2) Gnide (v.) - To rub.

Herbes he sought and fond,
And /gnidded/ hem bituix his hond.

- Arthour and Merlin

And after /gnodde/ and wasche wel thi saflour bagge
in thilke ly3e with bothe thyn hondis, to thou se that
thi li3e hath take a faire colour of thi saflour bagge.

- MS. Sloane 73

Pronunciation: /gnid@/

3) Thue (n.) - Slave.

The crie was sone wide couth, among /thue/ and freo,
That seint Thomas scholde after him archebischop beo.

- Life of Thomas Beket

Pronunciation: /Tu@/

4) Fenestral (n.) - A small fenestre, or window. Before glass was in
general use, the fenestre was often made of paper, cloth, or canvass,
and it was sometimes a kind of lattice-work, or shutter ornamented
with tracery. In the sixteenth century, the term fenestre seems to
have been applied to a blind or shutter in contradistinction to a
glazed window.

Tho com thar in a fuyri arewe
At a /fenestre/ anon.

- MS. Laud. 108

Pronunciation: /fEnEstrAl/

5) Remissails (n.) - Orts; leavings.

The best morsell, have this inremembraunce,
Hole to thiself alway do not applye;
Part with thi felawe, for that is curtasie:
Lade not thi trenchour with many /remissailes/,
And fro blaknes alway kepe thi nailes.

- Lydgate’s Stans Puer ad Mensam, MS.

Pronunciation: /rEmIsaIls/