"As fer as last Ytaille."

Author / Editor
Prins, A. A.

Title
"As fer as last Ytaille."

Published
English Studies 37 (1956): 111-16.

Description
Provides lexical and grammatical evidence to argue that the verbal form “last” in ClT 4.266 “more than likely” means “extend in space,” a “loan-sense from the French” influenced by development of the similar meaning of “dure.”

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Clerk and His Tale