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AlmainEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English Alemaine, Almayne, from Anglo-Norman Allemaine, Almaine et al., Old French Alemaigne, from Late Latin Alamannia (“territory of the Alamanni tribe”), from Alemannī, Allemannī, of Germanic origin probably corresponding to all + men. Compare Alemannic.
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1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024- AlmainMiddle English · word_almain_adj
Almain, adj. German, NED; Almaines, pl. Germans, NED; Almaygnes, S3.—OF. aleman (F. allemand). Source markup note (transcriber annotation; text “).”): .) for ).
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Almain, sb. a kind of dance, NED; almond, NED. Comb.: almain-leap, ND; almond-leape, Cotg. (s.v. saut). Source markup note (author correction; text “almain-leap”): corrected by author from ‘almain-lean’
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Source section: Additions and Corrections. This separately printed note may duplicate a correction already integrated in the source dictionary. Almain. For almain-lean read almain-leap.
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