"noyen" meaning in Middle English

See noyen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈnui̯ən/, /ˈniːən/, /ˈnyː(ə)/ (note: Southern, West Midland)
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nuier, reinforced through aphesis of anoyen. Compare anoyen. Etymology templates: {{bor+|enm|xno|nuier}} Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nuier, {{glossary|aphesis}} aphesis, {{apheretic form|enm|anoyen|notext=1}} anoyen Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} noyen Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|noy}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], noyen [infinitive], to noyen [infinitive], noye [infinitive], noye [first-person, present, singular], noyed [first-person, past, singular], noyest [present, second-person, singular], noyedest [past, second-person, singular], noyeth [present, singular, third-person], noyed [past, singular, third-person], noye [present, singular, subjunctive], noyed [past, singular, subjunctive], noye [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], noyen [plural, present], noye [plural, present], noyeden [past, plural], noyede [past, plural], noyeth [imperative, plural, present], noye [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], noyynge [participle, present], noyende [participle, present], noyed [participle, past], ynoyed [participle, past], newe [alternative], noȝen [alternative], noiȝe [alternative], noy [alternative], noye [alternative], noyȝen [alternative], nueyn [alternative], nuiȝe [alternative], nuye [alternative]
  1. To hurt; to cause injury.
    Sense id: en-noyen-enm-verb-P8RVTmGr
  2. To harass, distress, or trouble.
    Sense id: en-noyen-enm-verb-J2YA-G9z
  3. To bother; to annoy or irritate.
    Sense id: en-noyen-enm-verb-lYkEvFEN
  4. To wear out; to exhaust.
    Sense id: en-noyen-enm-verb-bGARPc7l Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Emotions, Pain Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 11 9 9 47 10 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 13 13 32 13 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 10 10 46 10 11 Disambiguation of Emotions: 4 0 15 72 0 9 Disambiguation of Pain: 0 0 0 99 0 1
  5. To make angry or revolted.
    Sense id: en-noyen-enm-verb-fHGlicBi
  6. (rare) To be annoyed or irritated. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-noyen-enm-verb-G-lmj8mp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: noy, noyaunce, noyous, noysom

Alternative forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "noy"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "noy"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "nuier"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nuier",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "aphesis"
      },
      "expansion": "aphesis",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "anoyen",
        "notext": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "anoyen",
      "name": "apheretic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nuier, reinforced through aphesis of anoyen. Compare anoyen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to noyen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ynoyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "newe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noiȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nueyn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nuiȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nuye",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "noyen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noy"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noy"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noyaunce"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noyous"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "noysom"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To hurt; to cause injury."
      ],
      "id": "en-noyen-enm-verb-P8RVTmGr",
      "links": [
        [
          "hurt",
          "hurt"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "injury",
          "injury"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To harass, distress, or trouble."
      ],
      "id": "en-noyen-enm-verb-J2YA-G9z",
      "links": [
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "distress",
          "distress"
        ],
        [
          "trouble",
          "trouble"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              38,
              43
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:",
          "text": "That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "\"In Normandie was he noght / Noyed for my sake; / Ac thow thiself soothly / Shamedest hym ofte, / Crope into a cabane1740 / For cold of thi nayles, / Wendest that wynter / Wolde han y-lasted evere, / And dreddest to be ded / For a dym cloude, / And hyedest homward / For hunger of thi wombe.\"",
          "text": "c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bother; to annoy or irritate."
      ],
      "id": "en-noyen-enm-verb-lYkEvFEN",
      "links": [
        [
          "bother",
          "bother"
        ],
        [
          "annoy",
          "annoy"
        ],
        [
          "irritate",
          "irritate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 9 9 47 10 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 13 13 32 13 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 10 10 46 10 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 0 15 72 0 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Emotions",
          "orig": "enm:Emotions",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 0 99 0 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Pain",
          "orig": "enm:Pain",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wear out; to exhaust."
      ],
      "id": "en-noyen-enm-verb-bGARPc7l",
      "links": [
        [
          "wear",
          "wear"
        ],
        [
          "exhaust",
          "exhaust"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make angry or revolted."
      ],
      "id": "en-noyen-enm-verb-fHGlicBi",
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ],
        [
          "revolted",
          "revolted"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To be annoyed or irritated."
      ],
      "id": "en-noyen-enm-verb-G-lmj8mp",
      "links": [
        [
          "annoyed",
          "annoyed"
        ],
        [
          "irritated",
          "irritated"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To be annoyed or irritated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnui̯ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈniːən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnyː(ə)/",
      "note": "Southern, West Midland"
    }
  ],
  "word": "noyen"
}
{
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    "Middle English apheretic forms",
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English terms borrowed from Anglo-Norman",
    "Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
    "Middle English verbs",
    "Middle English weak verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "enm:Emotions",
    "enm:Pain"
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  "descendants": [
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      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "noy"
    }
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    {
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        "1": "enm",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "nuier"
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      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "aphesis"
      },
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      "name": "glossary"
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        "notext": "1"
      },
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      "name": "apheretic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nuier, reinforced through aphesis of anoyen. Compare anoyen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "enm-conj-wk",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "to noyen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyedest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyeden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyede",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyeth",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyynge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ynoyed",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "newe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noiȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noy",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noye",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyȝen",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nueyn",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nuiȝe",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nuye",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
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      },
      "expansion": "noyen",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noy"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-wk"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "noy"
    },
    {
      "word": "noyaunce"
    },
    {
      "word": "noyous"
    },
    {
      "word": "noysom"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To hurt; to cause injury."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hurt",
          "hurt"
        ],
        [
          "cause",
          "cause"
        ],
        [
          "injury",
          "injury"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To harass, distress, or trouble."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "distress",
          "distress"
        ],
        [
          "trouble",
          "trouble"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              38,
              43
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:",
          "text": "That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "roman": "\"In Normandie was he noght / Noyed for my sake; / Ac thow thiself soothly / Shamedest hym ofte, / Crope into a cabane1740 / For cold of thi nayles, / Wendest that wynter / Wolde han y-lasted evere, / And dreddest to be ded / For a dym cloude, / And hyedest homward / For hunger of thi wombe.\"",
          "text": "c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bother; to annoy or irritate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bother",
          "bother"
        ],
        [
          "annoy",
          "annoy"
        ],
        [
          "irritate",
          "irritate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To wear out; to exhaust."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wear",
          "wear"
        ],
        [
          "exhaust",
          "exhaust"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make angry or revolted."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ],
        [
          "revolted",
          "revolted"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be annoyed or irritated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "annoyed",
          "annoyed"
        ],
        [
          "irritated",
          "irritated"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) To be annoyed or irritated."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnui̯ən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈniːən/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnyː(ə)/",
      "note": "Southern, West Midland"
    }
  ],
  "word": "noyen"
}

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