Middle English Dictionary Entry
Mọ̄̆ne-dai n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Mọ̄̆ne-dai n. Also mọ̄̆n-, mun- & monen-, munen- & (early) monendæig, -dæȝe, monandæȝe, monedæi & (in surn. only) mondy, mundy. |
| Etymology | OE mōnan-dæg |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The second day of the week, Monday; (b) blak ~, Easter Monday; perilous monedaies, inauspicious Mondays for the birth of a child; ~ lond, a lord's land on which tenants worked every Monday in payment of feudal obligations; monedaies lightinge, dawn on Monday; (c) in proverbs; (d) as a surname.
Associated quotations
a
- a1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1129 : Þa be gan þat mot on Monendæig & heold on an to ðe Fridæig.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13935 : Saturnus heo ȝiuen sætterdæi, þene Sunne heo ȝiuen sonedæi, Monenen heo ȝifuenen monedæi.
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)49/9 : Æfter þan oðre tweȝene sealmes beon ȝesed æfter ȝewunelicum þeaweum, þat is, on monandæȝe se fifte sealm, [etc.].
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)55/32 : Sy þonne þus ȝeendod se hundtweontiȝeða-&-se-eahteteoþa sealm on þam daȝum, þat is, on sunnedaȝe & on monendæȝe.
- c1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)900 : Þe Monenday sore syk þe bischop thomas lay.
- c1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)440 : Sonen-day of þe sonne, And of þe Mone Monen-day..Of one planete euerech day In þe wike i-cleoped is.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)72 : Pride made angel deuel dwale..He was mad on ðe sunedai, He fel out on ðe munendai.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11674 : Sir simon þe olde com þe monendai [vr. monedai] iwis.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)4299 : Y make auow to my lord seynt Ion, If y may lyue til moneday non, lyuerance wil y make.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.25 : Þere beeþ salt welles fer fram þee see, and beeth salte alle þe woke longe forto Saturday at none and fresche from Saturday at none for to Monday [L ad diem Lunæ].
- c1390(a1325) Ipotis (Vrn)119 : On þe monenday, verreyment, God made þe firmament.
- c1390 11 Pains(3) (Vrn)259/330 : Þis rest I ȝiue ȝow ful soon ffrom þe seter-day at Non, Til þe secunde hour beo cum On þe Monenday.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3430 : I saugh today a corps yborn to chirche, That now on Monday last I saugh hym wirche.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.147 : The Monenday þat felle to be next after þe tuelft day, þe kyng of France & he..Held a parlement.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.3140 : On a Monday, erly be þe morwe, Vn-to þe brigge þe riȝt weie he toke.
- (1422) RParl.4.173b : The forsaid pouere Commens..the Monunday next before the fest of Seint Martyn..graunton to oure said Lord the Kyng..a subsidie.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.102 : On Monedai in þe fifþe weke in Lente.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)12 : At the Moneday, as the firste workeday of the weke, bygynneth this gostly werk.
- (c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)230/33 : Þei londyd on Good Fryday & abedyn þer Estern Euyn & Estern Day & þe Monday aftyr Estern.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)20/24 : Phebe is callid the mone, of whome the Monday [vr. Moneday] hath his name; and to him is youen the metall that we call siluere.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)61/1 : It wer to long to tell of the goode iusters that iusted the moneday and the tuysday.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)107/5 : Make vii candellis of virgine-wax and vrite in þe furst candell sunday, and in þe secunde munday, [etc.].
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)47b/b : Þer beþ also vij daies whiche þat takiþ her propre names of þe vij planetis, þat is to seye..in ynglisch: Sunday, Mondai, Tewisday, Wednysday, Thursday, ffriday, Satirday.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)49a/a : Þeraftir in þe 24 hour next folowynge, þat is to seye, in þe Monday regneþ þe moone, And aftir him saturne.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)82/170 : In whiche hour ginning in the seconde day stant the Moone, as maister for that tyme to rule; of whom Monday taketh his name.
b
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.DD (Lamb 487)45 : Ic ham ȝeue reste alswa þu ibeden hauest from non on saterdei a þa cume monedeis lihting.
- (1338) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.81 : Monedaylond.
- (1338) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.81 : [John Fotling and Simon Husbond hold a quarter of] monenday lond [of Richard Haldeyn..and work every Monday].
- 1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.97 : Yis gilde schal haue by ȝere foure mornspeches: Ye fyrst schal be after ye drynkynge, ye secunde schal be on blake monunday, ye yride schal be on mesomur day, ye ferthe schal be on mykames day.
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)13 : In this same yere the xiiij day off Aprill and the morwe after Ester Day, Kyng Edward with his Oost lay byfore the Citee off Parys; the which was a ffoule Derke day off myste and off haylle, and so bytter colde that syttyng on horse bak men dyed; Wherfore, vnto this day yt ys called blak Monday.
- a1475 Perilous Days in EETSES 91 (Add 5467)p.188 : Ther been..iij parellouse Mondays yn the yere that beene forbodyn..for yf a child be gotyne yn any of thik iij days, he shall be disposid to be brent or haue sodayne dethe.
c
- c1475 Rwl.Prov.(Rwl D.328)118 : Lunaris strena pueris est maxima pena. A monday-ys hansell' ys grete pane to chyddryn'.
- a1500 Listenythe nowe & (Dgb 88)47 : Yf Cristemas day on A munday be, Grete wynter þat yere ye shull see.
d
- (1292) Let.Bk.Lond.A (Gldh LetBk A)147 : Arnald Moneday.
- (1332) Name in LuSE 3585 : Monenday.
- (1428) Feudal Aids 5165 : Johannes Mondy.
- (1448) EPNSoc.11 (Sur.)280 : John Mundy.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1450) Acc.St.Margaret Southwark in BMag.32487 : Peyd to the Clerkes vpon gangmonday, viij d.
Note: Gang-Monday?