'Daunger': Specimen of Chaucer Lexicon
- Author / Editor
- Terasawa, Yoshio.
'Daunger': Specimen of Chaucer Lexicon
- Published
- Key-Word Studies in "Beowulf" and Chaucer 1 (1980): 17-22.
- Description
- The article analyses and describes a Chaucerian key-word "danger" and its derivative "dangerous" in respect of etymology, semantic development, frequency of occurence, form, riming structure, grammatical and semantic collocation, association, and senses.
- In Line 514 of WBT, Chaucer ingeniously makes a pun on "daungerous" (difficile, aloof: dangerous), where there might be an additional pun on "love-danger," the only occurence of which seems to be found in "Pearl" (line 11).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.