Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue.
From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). By surface analysis, a- + coy.
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- Derivation mentionacoyerfrm
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