melodye

Middle English

Alternative forms

• melodie

Etymology

From Old French melodie, from Latin melodia.

Noun

melodye (plural melodyes)

1. music; song; melody
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.

     And smale foweles maken melodye,
     That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
     (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);

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Descendants

• Scots: melody
• English: melody