'Forlynen'': A Ghost Word Rematerializes

Author / Editor
Machan, Tim William.

Title
'Forlynen'': A Ghost Word Rematerializes

Published
Notes and Queries 229 (1984): 22-24.

Description
The origin of "forlynen" in Chaucer's Bo is the OF "forlignier," taken from Jean de Meun.

Chaucer Subjects
Boece.
Language and Word Studies.