Middle English Dictionary Entry
g n.
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Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The letter G of the alphabet; the sound of the letter 'g'; (b) the letter G designating a square on a chess board or the seventh item in a series; (c) the dominical letter G; yer of ~, a year (or part of a year) in which the first Sunday falls on the seventh day of the first month; (d) the letter G used as abbrev. for a name or a word; also, used to designate the G-section of an alphabetized (or partially alphabetized) list; (e) a musical note [see g(e-sol-re-ut].
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)331a/a : Gauta is a gret heuy bolle, holow bolle and depe, and hatte gauata as it were cauata holowȝ, þere g is y-sette for c.
- c1400 Daniel *Herbal (Arun 42)f.35v : Modirwort: Lewed folk þat in manye wordes conne no ryȝt sownyng, but ofte shortyn wordes & changyn lettrys & silablys, þey coruptyn þe 'o' into 'u' & 'd' into 'g' & syncopyn, i. smytyn awey 'i' & 'r' & seyn 'mugwort.'
- a1425 *Tit.Alphabet (Tit D.18)9a : Alphabetum Anglicum: f, ef; g, ge; h, uhe.
- c1425 in MLR 6442 : Summe writen .g.h. in summe wordis, whiche wordis ben writen of summe oþere with a yogh.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)191 : Nota in hoc capitulo multiplicem sonum, et soni mutacionem hujus litere G. et ideo bene caveas quod sonat per I. literam.
b
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)111/5 marg. : G An hermyte..fecchyd watyr euery day.
- c1475 Chess(2) (Ashm 344)603 : Then say chek mate with thy Roke in F or G.
c
- 1397 WBible(2) TL (Em 102)1.p.lvi : Thus these lettres failen on lepe ȝeres in alle tymes. This was writen in the ȝer of g sundai next after lepeȝeer of b in the ȝeer of the Lord [1397].
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)2.6.295 (f.48rb; p.140) : Tak hede on what lettre Sondai goþ; F E D C B A G are concurrantz: when þe Sonday goþ on F, þe concurrantz goþ þat ȝere on j; when þe Sonday goth on E, þe concurrant goþ on 2; when on D, on 3, & so of alle þat oþer.
- c1450 Lond.Chron.Cleo.(Cleo C.4)134 : In that yere [1432] whas lepe yere, and the dominicall letter G.
d
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10232 : Þe king..to hom anon sende Is heye Iustice of is lond, sir G. le fiz peris.
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.198ra : Se in G.
- ?a1425(c1390) Chaucer Truth (Benson-Robinson)end : Explicit Le bon counseill de G. Chaucer.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)178a/a : Medicinez bigynnyng by G. G. Galle ar fruytez grene, [etc.].
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)20/10 : Sectes…of lewed men…reproued of G [Ch.(2): Galien] in de cectis…war 5.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)187a/b : Of the lettre G. Galle virides, grene galles, is a fruyte, [etc.].
- c1450 *Chauliac(1) (Sln 3666)153b/b : Medicynez bigynnyng by G. G. G. Galle ar fruytez, [etc.].
- a1500 Cryst crosse (Cai 174/95)10 : And the gryntyng & the gnascyng þat ys G.