entumir (s.xiii2/4)
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entumir (s.xiii2/4)

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  FEW:  tumb 17,383b Gdf:  entomir 3,267c GdfC: ∅ TL: entomir 3,604 DEAF:  entomir  DMF:  entomir  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
entumer  

Despite different etymologies estoner and entumir / estumir are semantically virtually indistinguishable, so that their orthographical similarity may well have led to confiusion of the different verbs.

v.a.

1 to stun, daze: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 ) Par ço fu Adam descunfit Quant li deables li out dit K’il serat si cum Dé, Par orguil ki l’ad entumé  4631

v.absol.

1to numb, daze: 
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  (In winter) froit reprent force, entumisent ventz, descheunt foilles des arbres  353
estumir 
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