Middle English Dictionary Entry
innoth n.
Entry Info
| Forms | innoth n. Also inneþ. |
| Etymology | OE innoþ |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The womb, belly, entrails; also [quot.PDidax.], the gall bladder; (b) fig. the inner workings, hidden causes.
Associated quotations
a
- a1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)67/9 : Se nu eft on wurlde emne from swyðe facan innoðe onfangen byð.
- a1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Fest.Virg.(Vsp D.14)27/120 : Þeos [underfoð] nænne oðerne cume bute þone Hælend sylf, na synderlice on oðren herbyrge bute on hire agene innoðe [L utero].
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)65.1/1 : Wið innoðes sar, ȝenim þa wirte..mugwyrt.
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B:Berberich)77.10/10 : Ȝenim þa wirt..wyl on wætere, & drincan hit wearm, þanne byð þas innoþas sar sentende.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)3/21 : Se ruwa ȝealla on þan innoþe and se swerta ȝealle innan ðare blædran.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Dom.Quadr.(Bod 343)48/7 : Jonas hine bed on þæs hwæles innoðe, & he ðonen alysed wæs.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)83 : Godes sune..bitunde him solue in ane meidenes inneþe.
- a1200 Trin.Hom.Creed (Trin-C B.14.52)21 : Ich bileue on þe helende crist þe þat holie maiden..on hire innoðe understod of þe holie gost.
b
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1319 : Þe mon mot beo wel storre wis An wite innoþ of þucche [read: wucche] þinge kume.