Middle English Dictionary Entry
inker pron. (possessive dual)
Entry Info
| Forms | inker pron. (possessive dual) Also incker, ȝinker, unker, gunker, ȝunker. |
| Etymology | OE incer; forms with initial g-, ȝ-, influenced by nom. ȝit, var. of yit; forms with vowel -u- influenced perh. by unker, or by the vowel of the corresponding forms of ink pron. dual. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of two people: your; (b) in partitive constructions: ~ bother, of both of you; ~ either, each of you two; ~ nother, neither of you two; ~ notheres, of neither of you two; whether ~, which(ever of you two.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)18/3 : For þam wundre..þet god ælmihtiȝ ðurh incer benæ iwroht hæfð.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6204-5 : & haldenn ȝunnkerr Cristenndom Wel affterr ȝunnkerr mihhte.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)5102 : Nis hit noht un-huhtlic, incker [Otho: ȝoure] moder inc hateð.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)5623 : Ich inckere freond wurðe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)26541 : Marcel, far to helle..mid Quencelien þin ifere, and haldeð þer unker [Otho: woure] rune.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)97/30 : Ðis hali temple..þat godd, ȝinker sceppend, mihte ðarinne wunien.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)4/19 : To þenchen..Hu muche mahte of inker streon awakenin.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)398 : Adam, ðhu knowe eue ðin wif, And leded samen gunker lif.
b
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6183 : Tu mihht follȝhenn hire will..Inn all þatt ȝho ȝeorneþþ..To ȝunnkerr baþre gode.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)32170 : Ich inc halsi beien..þat unker æiðer oðer luuie swa his broðer.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)95/13 : Hwaðer ȝunker hes tobrecð, justicia dei scall ðar of don riht.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)97/26 : Ȝunker noðer ne scal habben his ȝewill.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)28/449 : Hwet ȝef..ti weres beo þe wrað oðer iwurðe þe lað, swa þet inker eiþer heasci wið oþer?
- c1225 SWard (Roy 17.A.27)40/374 : Eiðer of ow haueð his stunde to speokene, ne nis incker noðres tale to schunien in his time.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)151 : Whi nel tu flon in to þe bare & sewi þare [read: ware] unker [Jes-O: vnker] bo Of briȝter howe of uairur blo.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1882 : Roberd! willam! hware ar ye? Gripeth eþer unker a god tre, And late we nouth þise doges fle.