auntren
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French aventurer with the suffixation of -en (infinitive forming suffix). Related to English adventure, venture and Middle English aventure, auntrous.
Verb edit
auntren (third-person singular simple present auntreth, present participle auntrende, auntrynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle auntred)
- to venture, risk (one's life), dare
- to happen, occur
- (also reflexive) to undertake, try, take a chance
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [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, lines 4205-4206:
- He auntred him and has his nedes sped,
And I lie as draf-sek in my bed.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)