deyerie
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman deyerie (“dairy”), from deye (“dairymaid”) + -erie (“-ery”); compare their Middle English cognates deye and -erie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdæi̯əˈriː(ə)/, /ˈdæi̯(ə)riː(ə)/
- IPA(key): /ˌdɛi̯əˈriː/, /ˈdɛi̯(ə)riː/ (Northern)
Noun
deyerie
- A dairy (a room for making or storing dairy products).
- A dairy farm (a farm or part of one set aside for dairy farming).
- A dairy herd (cattle for milking).
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 9, verso, lines 597-599:
- Hıs loꝛdes sheep[e] / hıs neet / hıs daẏerẏe / Hıs swẏn / hıs hoꝛs / hıs stooꝛ / and hıs pultrẏe / Was hoollẏ / ın thıs Reues gou[er]nẏnge […]
- His lord's sheep, beef herd, dairy herd, / swine, horses, livestock, and poultry, / were entirely under this reeve's control […]
Descendants
References
- “daierīe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.