"Sym" meaning in Middle English

See Sym in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Clipping of Simeon and Simon. Etymology templates: {{etymon|enm|Simon>name|Simeon>name|id=name}}, {{clipping|en|Simeon,Simon}} Clipping of Simeon and Simon Head templates: {{head|enm|proper noun||{{{1}}}||{{{gen}}}|||head=}} Sym, {{enm-proper noun}} Sym
  1. a diminutive of the male given names Simeon or Simon, equivalent to English Sim Categories (topical): Middle English diminutives of male given names, Middle English given names, Middle English male given names Derived forms: Sympson
    Sense id: en-Sym-enm-name-MpWMDChB Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 83 3 7 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 2 6 6
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          "ref": "c. 1475, “The Hunttyng of the Hare”, in Henry Weber, editor, Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: Published from Ancient Manuscripts. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; and John Murray, and Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, […], published 1810, pages 281 (lines 49–54) and 287 (lines 187–188):",
          "text": "“Parkyn the potter hase iij that wyll not fayll, / Short schonkes and neuer a tayll; / No kalfe so greyt, as Y wene. / So has Dykon and Jac Gryme, / So has yonge Raynall and Sym, / And all thè schall hom sene.”— […] Sym, that was balyd lyke a kow, / He seyd: “Syrres, Y arest yow now.”",
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