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Middle English
Noun
gyse (plural gyses)
- guise
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio i, verso, column 2, lines
133–135:
And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- gysa (weak verb, a-infinitive)
- (strong verb):
Etymology
From Old Norse gjósa.
Verb
gyse (present tense gyser, past tense gyste, past participle gyst, passive infinitive gysast, present participle gysande, imperative gys)
- (intransitive) to shiver, tremor
- (causative) to make someone shiver in fear
Verb
gyse (present tense gys, past tense gaus, supine gose, past participle gosen, present participle gysande, imperative gys)
- (intransitive) to boil, swell, blow
References
- “gyse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.