hurtelen
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hurten + -elen; compare hurlen. For forms with /k/, compare dialectal modern English turkle (“turtle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]hurtelen (third-person singular simple present hurteleth, present participle hurtelende, hurtelynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hurteled)
- To trip or fall over; to make a misstep.
- [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English), [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xxi, recto:
- O fyrſt mouyng cruel firmament / Wyth thy diurnal ſwegh, that croudeſt aye / And hurtleſte al fro Eſt to Occident / That naturally wolde holde another way
- O first moving cruel firmament / With thy diurnal sway that crowdest aye [always] / And hurtles all from East to Occident / That naturally would hold another way]
- To smash or fall together; to undergo collision.
- To throw or shove; to apply force to:
- [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English), [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC, page 81, lines 2617–2618:
- He foineth on his foe with a trunchoun, / And he him hurtleth with his horse adown.
- He foineth [thrust] on his foe with a truncheon, / And he him hurtleth with his horse adown.]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of hurtelen (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
[edit]- English: hurtle
References
[edit]- “hurtelen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.