routen
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Noun[edit]
routen
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English hrutan (“to make a noise; snore”). Compare Middle Dutch ruten, ruyten, Old Swedish ruta, Old Norse hrjóta (“to burst, spring forth”).
Verb[edit]
routen
- To make a loud noise:
- (hunting) To shout at or direct hounds by shouting.
- To grunt, snore.
- [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xvii, verso, column 2:
- This myller hath ſo wiſely bybbed ale / That as an horſe he ſnorteth in hys ſlepe / Ne of hys tayle behynde he toke no kepe / His wyfe bare to hym a bordon wel ſtrong / Men might hem here route a forlonge.
- This miller hath so wisely bibbed ale / That as an horse he snorteth in his sleep / Nor of his tail behind he took no keep / His wife bore to him a burden [phrase or theme recurring in a ballad or folk song at the end of each verse] well strong / Men might him hear rout [snore] a furlong.]
- (by extension) To sleep.
- To rush forward; to be dragged behind.
- To strike or beat.
Etymology 2[edit]
Converted from the noun route. Compare Old French aroter.
Verb[edit]
routen
- To assemble, congregate, regroup.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- In all that land no Christian durste route.
- Christians dared not assemble in that land
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
routen