transoun (c.1290)

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The form trenchon is a cross reference to the following entry:

transoun (c.1290)

[gdw]

[FEW: *13/ii,217a transtrum; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  transom n.; MED:  traunsom n.; DMLBS: 3487a transtrum]
transoum,  traunson;  trenchon,  trenchom,  trenchoun  
M.E. (?)

The trench- forms have been alternatively interpreted as forms of trunçun; see, for example, DEAF trons (tronçon) or Bibb Roth (G) p.44 n.13 (which suggest a possible formal association with *trinicare, trencher). For the association with English transom, see William Rothwell, ‘The Place of Femina in Anglo-Norman Studies’, Studia Neophilologica 70 (1998), pp. 55-82 (pp. 77-78).

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1build.transom, cross beam
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 ) Vous ne devez ublier K’il encovent aver grenchouns E clous ficchez en vos mesouns. E trenchons (M.E. splentes) a la meisoun ausi (var. (C: s.xivin) E trenchouns a la pareye ausi )  971
( s.xivin; MS: 1382 ) Traches et trenchons (M.E. Sulle-trees and splentes) Et meynte autre gobons Piler desouz le poutre  448
( s.xvin; MS: s.xv1 ) vous covient d'aver [...] trenchoms a la pareie auxci (M.E. stantyz to walle). Pur cele aprise jeo vous di, Qar il y ad trenchoms et trenchesoms, Dount discord ad de nouns. Qar trenchoms fount as measones, Et trenchesoms fount morer chivalez  73.2
( 1450 ) pro factura .ij. formpeys, chaumeres, retournes, corbels, transoums [...] pro .ij. fenestris  109
2transom nail, small nail
( 1399-1400 ) [...] sprig, traunson et rofnaill pur ceres et cliefs [...]  1 Henry IV
( 1407-08 ) [...] pur .xiij M. et demi de sprig a .x. d. - .xj. s. .iij. d. pur demi .M. traunson .v. d. ob. [...]  9 Henry IV
( 1409-10 ) pur diversis sortis de clowis, c’est a dire le .c. a .vj. d. [...], sprig, traunsoun et rofnaill pur ceres, cliefs, lacchis [...]  11 Henry IV
trestre 
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