partipol (c.1330)
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partipol (c.1330)

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[ hap]

  FEW:  pullus *9,536a Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  pol 2 (*)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
 

This otherwise unattested term for ‘antelope’ seems to have been a compound created from parti (p.p. partir ‘particoloured, variegated’ and pol from pullus 2 ‘the young of a horse, foal, colt’ (DMLBS 2569b), though this form is unknown in pulle.

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1mammalszool.antelope, animal resembling a foal: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  Antalop  (ed. Autalop) (var. (B: c.1330) La partipol) est un beste coynt e viste e de gentil manere [...] E tant com il est rongeant les burgeouns de ces foilles, il est gueyté del venour [...]  73
partir  poule 
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