Middle English Dictionary Entry
tumben v.
Entry Info
| Forms | tumben v. Also toumbe, (error) coumbe; p. tumbed(e, toumbede, tombede. |
| Etymology | OE tumbian & OF tomber, tumber, AF toumber. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. tumblen v.
1.
(a) To fall; (b) to leap, tumble, dance.
Associated quotations
a
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10830 : Þe king ne miȝte þo uorbere, þat he ne wep atte laste, & bigan nei vor pite isuowe vpriȝt toumbe [vr. coumbe].
- a1350 Songs Langtoft (Jul A.5)p.236 : Skaterd be the Scottes, Hoderd in thar hottes..Thai tumbed [vrr. toumbe; tumbeld] in Twede Thet woned by the se.
b
- a1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)244/65 : Þus hadde moder and eke doȝter hor mede attenende, As ssel eche luþer man wanne oure Louerd him wole sende Vuel; hy tombede [Hrl: tumbede] attelaste nere hom noȝt so loþe.
- c1390 NHom.John Bapt.(Vrn)27 : Bi fore him com a ȝong laas, þat herodias douhter was, And Toumbede [Phys-E: tumbeled] so wel wiþ alle.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)45/19 : Heroudes wyues douȝtter so tumbed tofore þe kyng..and paied so wel þe kyng þat he swore þat sche scholde haue what þing þat sche hym bisouȝth.
- c1410 Trev.Higd.(Add 24194)4.365 : Tombede [L saltaverat; StJ-C: Þe eorþe swelowede þe wenche þat tomblede].