Middle English Dictionary Entry
North-humbre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | North-humbre n. Also northumbre & (error) norþhober. |
| Etymology | OE Norþ-hymbre & Humbre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Pl. The people of Northumbria; (b) Northumbria; ?coll. the people of Northumbria.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.163 : Al þe longage of þe Norþhumbres [Higd.(2): men of Northumbrelonde; L Northimbrorum], and specialliche at Ȝork, is so scharp, slitting, and frotynge and vnschape, þat we souþerne men may þat longage vnneþe vnderstonde.
b
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)30379 : Cadwaðlan gon liðe ut of Lundenne touward Norðhumbre.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)59 : Voure kinges hii made þo in þis kinedom, Þe king of westsex and of kent, & of norþhober þe þridde, & þe kyng of þe march þat was here amidde.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4662 : Of norþhumber [B vr.: Northumbre].
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4683 : Þe verste king of norþhumber, in þe ȝer of grace bigan Vif hundred & seuene & fourty, as me telle can.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.81 : Þis is þe citee of [read: þat] Ethelfride, kyng of Norþhumber [Tbr: Norþhumberlond; L Northimbrorum], destroyed.