stounde

stounde

1. Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.
   • 2008 January 1 [circa 14th century AD], Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter William Skeat, editor, Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, volume 1, Cosimo, Inc.,, →ISBN, The Minor Poems, V. The Parlement of Foules, line 142, page 340:

     Thise vers of gold and blak y-writen were,
     The whiche I gan a stounde to beholde,
     For with that oon encresed ay my fere,
     And with that other gan myn herte bolde ;
     That oon me hette, that other did me colde,
     No wit had I, for errour, for to chese,
     To entre or flee, or me to save or lese.

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From Old Frisian stonda, standa, from Proto-Germanic *standaną. More at stand.

stounde

1. to stand

• ferstounde