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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports the transcript and approximate date. No manuscript pixels were inspected, and the representative year does not claim an exact copying event.
Middle Englishcirca 1175, source-reportedestablished
frẹ̄nd
Ormulum, bridegroom's friend
“& wha se iss þatt bridgumess frend He stannt wiþþ himm”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1175
- LOCATOR
- Meaning A.1a; Ormulum, Burchfield transcript, line 17960
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfriend ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1310 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary — friend, n. & adj.
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary editors
- YEAR
- 2013
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-friend