Middle-English Word of the Day - December 11, 2007
Engleymen (v.) - to bind together as with glue or viscous matter.
And right as hony is yvel to defie and engleymeth the mawe,
Right so that thorugh reson wolde the roote knowe
Of God and of hise grete myghtes - hise graces it letteth.
- Langland, William: The vision of Piers Plowman (1377-1379)
Pronunciation: /EnglaImEn/
Key
/E/ e in met
/n/ n in no
/g/ g in go
/l/ l in lily
/aI/ ai in aisle
/m/ m in make
The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and Skeat's
"Concise Dictionary of Middle English."
As found on Greg Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html
The example text was found at the
Middle English Collection
of the
University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/mideng.browse.html
The approximate pronunciation is determined using Carol Hamill's Middle English Pronunciation Guide
and noted using upon the ASCII-IPA Standard
http://www.island.net/~hamill/medieval/mepronunc.html
http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/
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