sownen
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Middle English
[edit]Etymology
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Verb
[edit]sownen (third-person singular simple present sowneth, present participle sownende, sownynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sowned)
- to sound
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- Al be that I kan nat sowne his stile, / Ne kan nat clymben over so heigh a style
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales