Middle English Dictionary Entry
kindel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | kindel n. Also kundel, cundel. Pl. kindeles, etc. & kind(e)len. |
| Etymology | OE gecynd 'offspring' & ME -el suf.(1); cp. OHG chindili, MHG kindel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The offspring of any animal, a young one; also fig.; (b) ?a human child; wommen kindelin, female babies.
Associated quotations
a
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)45/4 : Ha is neddre cundel.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)103/11,18 : Þe neddre of attri onde haueð seoue hwelpes [Tit: cundles; Nero: kundles; Recl.: kyndlen]. Ingratitudo. þis cundel bret hwa se nis icnawen goddede..Þe oðer cundel is Rancor siue odium.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)115/16 : Moni þet ne weneð nawt bret in hire breoste sum liunes hwelp, sum neddre cundel [Recl.: kyndels] þe forfret þe sawle.
- a1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)496 : Ðanne ge [elephant] sal hire kindles beren; In water ge sal stonden.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 3.7 : Kyndlis [WB(2): Kyndlyngis] of eddris, who schewide to ȝou to flee fro wraththe to comynge?
- c1390(?a1325) Adam & E.(2) (Vrn)222/31 : Wiþ þyne furste kundles, þow schalt bersten on-þreo.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)13 : Fro May in to Septembre..þei ben grete and ful of kyndeles, And comonly in þat tyme þei haue her kyndeles..The hare bereþ ii monthes her kyndels, and whan þei han kyndeled þei likken her kyndels as a biche doothe here whelpes..An hare bereth comonlyche ii kyndelz.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3845 : A Tigre..whan his kyndles arn be sleight take.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)12b/b : Catulus: a whelp or a cheton or a kyndyl.
- ?c1430(c1383) Wycl.Leaven Pharisees (Corp-C 296)2 : Seint Joon baptist & crist clepede hem ypocritis & serpentis and addir kyndles.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4199 : Þire Cocatricesse in creuessis þar kindiles þai brede.
b
- c1485 Chaucer CT.WB.(Sln 1686)D.402 : Kyndelyn [Heng: Deceite, wepyng, spynnyng, god hath yeue To wommen kyndely whil they may lyue].