herte blood
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
- heart-blood, lifeblood
- 1385, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde[1], Book 2, lines 444-445:
- Fro this forth shal I never eten breed
Til I myn owene herte blood may see;- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (rare) life, livelihood
Descendants[edit]
- English: heart-blood
References[edit]
- “herte-blọ̄d, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-04.