Medieval Cookery - Middle-English Word of the Day

Middle-English Word of the Day - February 22, 2008

Warisch (v.) - to heal, cure, to be cured.

Is ther no ship, of so manye as I se,
Wol bryngeth hom my lord? thanne were myn herte
Al warisshed of his bittre peynes smerte.
another tyme them wolde she sitte and thynke,
And caste hir eyen dounward fro the brynke.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury tales (1387-1394)

Pronunciation: /wArIS/

Key
/w/ w in we, away
/A/ a in father
/r/ r in red
/I/ i in bit
/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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