† nute
(also nuten, -eth),
for ne wite know not: cf. nete, niten, and not v.2 Obs.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxi. 27 [Hia] ᵹeondueardon ðæm hælende [and] cuedon, ‘nutu we’ [c 1000 we nyton, Hatton nyten]. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 75 Alle ȝe kunnen..ower credo, þeh ȝe nuten nawiht alle hwat hit seið. a 1225 Ancr. R. 194 Þe oðre, þauh we habben ham ofte, we nuteð ham nout. a 1250 Owl & Night. 1010 Hi drinkeþ milc and wei þar to Hi nute elles wat hi do. c 1300 St. Brandan 286 This bred that we eteth nou we Nuteth whanne hit is. |