[esraciner] (c.1230)

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[esraciner] (c.1230)

[gdw]

  FEW:  radicina *10,20a Gdf:  esraciner 2 3,560b GdfC: TL: esraciner 3,1278 DEAF:  racine (*)  DMF:  esraciner  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:
arasciner;  enraciner  

The below citations use the prefixes a- and en- that are unetymological to the sense needed (and in effect producing the opposite in araciner1 and enraciner1. They imply the verb esraciner (with an es- prefix), even though such a form is otherwise not attested in Anglo-Norman.

v.a.

1bot.to uproot, dig up by the root
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Lur gent fait batre e ledenger E la forest arasciner  8574
( MS: s.xiii )  eruo: jeo enracine  i 148
( MS: s.xiv2 )  temps est de plaunter, et temps de enraciner sus ceo qe est plauntee  (A) 197rb
raciner 
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