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Middle English
Etymology
ilk (“each”) + oon (“one”)
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ilkon
- Each one; everyone
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Seconde Nonnes 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:
And from Maximius and from his folk ilkon
þe false feiþ to trowe in gol allon- (please add an English translation of this quotation)