receyvour
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ressaver, recevere, receivour, receyver, receyvor, receyvoure, resceyver, resceyvere, resceyvour, resceyvoure, reseyvour, resseyvere, resseyvour
- resayver, resayvere (Northern, Northwest Midland); resavour, ressavour (Early Scots); reseyver (Somerset); receyvur (Suffolk)
- resaver (Catholicon Anglicum); receyvowre (Promptorium Parvulorum)
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman recevour, from receivre; by surface analysis, receyven (“to receive”) + -our (“-er, -or”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛːˌsæi̯ˈvuːr/, /rɛːˌsɛːˈvuːr/, /rɛ-/
- IPA(key): /rɛːˈsæi̯vur/, /rɛːˈsæi̯vər/, /rɛːˈsɛːvur/, /rɛːˈsɛːvər/, /rɛ-/ (with reduction)
Noun
receyvour (plural receyvours) (chiefly Late Middle English)
- A recipient; someone (or rarely something) that receives.
- A receiver (tax collector or treasurer)
- (rare) A shelterer; one who provides harbour or protection.
Descendants
References
- “receivǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.