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Middle-English Word of the Day - December 5, 2007

Nesh (adj.) - tender, soft.

Bot hatters, I can fynde no flesh,
hard nor nesh,
Salt nor fresh,
Bot two tome platers.

- Anonymous: The Towneley plays (1460)

Pronunciation: /nES/

Key
/n/ n in no
/E/ e in met
/S/ sh in shy

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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