bounte

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bonte, bunte, bountie

Etymology

From Old French bonté, bunté.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːnˈteː/, /ˈbuːnteː/

Noun

bounte (uncountable)

1. goodness
   • c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):

     That al hire bountè telle con

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• English: bounty

References

• “bǒuntẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.