Middle English Dictionary Entry
ilōpen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | ilōpen v. P.ppl. ilōpe. |
| Etymology | ON; cp. OI hlaupa, ppl. hlaupinn & OSwed. löpa; cp. also MDu. lopen. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To leap, jump; ~ to hors, mount a horse; (b) to run, rush; (c) to penetrate, pierce.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)324/75 : Into þe se heo wolde habbe i-lope..Ȝif it nadde i-beo for grete hope.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.5 : Traianus was i-lope [L ascenderet] to hors for to wende to a bataile.
- c1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)262/74 : [Placidas]..sauh þis grete hert Ilope so heih þat of his lupe ferly hym þouht.
b
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)972 : Þo Jesues picher was to broke, And þe wicke giv a wei i lope.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)5059 : Þe tour þay hauede y-take þo, Nadde duk Naymes y-lope hem to.
- c1390 Mirror St.Edm.(1) (Vrn)185 : Now are we trauaylet in to drede I-lope, Now beo þe wey of fals hope.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)353 : In to the chaunbyr anoon he is i-lope.
c
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)80/4 : Ȝif þer is yren or tre or þorne y-lope into any stede of mannys body.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Quot. c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33) 5059 is quoted by MED under both this word (ilōpen v.) and lēpen v., illustrating the fact that any allocation of past participles of the form i-lope between the two cognate and semantically indistinguishable words would appear to be arbitrary.