Middle English Dictionary Entry
nẹ̄p n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | nẹ̄p n.(2) Also neppe & (early) næp, nap. |
| Etymology | OE; cp. A nēp, WS nǣp. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The turnip plant Brassica rapa, a turnip; wilde ~, ?a wild turnip Brassica campestris; ?bryony; ~ sed, the seed of the turnip plant, used medicinally; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.49].
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)7/27 : To þan mann, þæt hys heafod æcþ, oððer wurmas on þan heafedon rixisiad [read: rixiad]: Nim senepsæd and næpsæd and meng eced.
- ?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)41/24 : Þus þu scealt þane spæawdrenc wyrcean: Nim smale napes and leȝe hy on eced and do þar huniȝ to and læt hy licgean ane niht þæron ofȝotene; ete þanne a morȝen.
- a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Trin-C O.2.21)p.106 : E ausi troverez plente des navez [glossed:] of nepes.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)236 : Homme en gardeyn arace nauet: M. in the ȝerde pullith nepus.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)248b/b : Senuey hatte Sinapis, and haþ þat name of Syn, þat is, liche, & napis and nepe [L napo], for it is liche to an nepe in leues as ysider seiþ.
- a1400 Alphita (SeldArch B.35)153 : Rapa, gall. nauet: nepe.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)9/4 : And Jones mete nas bot ramesones and wilde-nepes.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)43a/b : Napus: a nepe.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)52a : Rapa domestica: Nepis ys colde and drye; drinke hit in hote muste; hit makiþ men to swete.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)111/30 : Þat he abstene hym..fro þe substaunce of potages, fruytes, nepes [*Ch.(1): rapez; L rape], chestaynes.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)627/33 : Rapa, nepe, is knowen hote in þe secounde degre, moyste in þe firste degree, & maturynge.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)9.29 : Nowe rape and neep [L napus] in places drie is sowe.
- a1450 SLeg.Suppl.Bod.(Bod 779)335/68 : Al his lif to penaunce þis goodman haþ I-dyȝt: xv nepus he et echday, & þat a-ȝen þe nyȝt.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3076 : Hir armys were auenaund & abill of shap..Hir hondes fetis & faire, with fingurs full small, With nailes at the neþer endes as a nepe white.
- c1450(c1430) Brut-1430 (Glb E.8)400/33 : And thanne hem failid..alle othir graynys that thei myght make of eny brede; but branne and broken wotis [read: wortis] and nepe-rotis and lekis was to hem mete of grete valewe.
- c1450 Page SRouen (BodeMus 124)p.64 : And yet but lytell they myȝt fynde..But off bran and of brokyn otes, Also lekys and nepys in fere.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)711 : Rapa: a neppe.
b
- (1240) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)447 : Napstede.
- (1249) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)406 : Nepewurth.
- (1292) in Wallenberg PNKent156 : Nepacre.
- (1313) in Wallenberg PNKent156 : Nepekere.
- (1325) Rec.Norwich 221 : Una acra terre que vocatur Neplond.
- (1333) EPNSoc.9 (Dev.)406 : Nepeworthe.
- (1386) in Wallenberg PNKent156 : Nepacre.