bounte
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French bonté, bunté.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bounte (uncountable)
- 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)
- c. 1300, Anonymous, "Alison" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):
Descendants edit
- English: bounty
References edit
- “bǒuntẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.