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Reynardn.Brit. /ˈreɪnɑːd/, /ˈrɛnəd/, U.S. /reɪˈnɑrd/, /ˈreɪˌnɑrd/, /ˈrɛˌnɑrd/, /ˈreɪnərd/, /ˈrɛnərd/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French reynard. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman reynard, Anglo-Norman and Middle French renard, renart, Middle French regnard, regnart (French renard ) fox (13th cent. in Old French), originally the proper name of the protagonist (a fox) in the Roman de Renard. The name is ultimately of Germanic origin, cognate with the modern German personal name Reinhart (Old High German Raginhart ). The β. forms reflect assimilation to the reflexes of a different Germanic personal name, reflected by the modern English personal names Reginald and Reynold and the surname Reynolds (in the modern form Reynolds punningly after the surname: compare quots. 1815, 1875, 1896 at sense 1β. ); compare the Old High German form Raginald , modern German Reinold . In sense 2 after French Renard (1681 in this sense), after Huron Skenchiohronon , literally ‘people of the red fox’ (1640); compare French Ouagoussac (1673), rendering Meskwaki *wa·kose·haki foxes, given as one of four Meskwaki clans (now wa·koše·haki : compare Meskwaki n.); compare slightly earlier fox n.In Caxton's influential work (see quot. 1481 at sense 1α. ) immediately rendering Middle Dutch Reynaerd-, Reynaert in his original. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (rēi·năɹd) /ˈreɪnəd/. the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) α. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) 1728 (MED) Ofte he watz runnen at when he out rayked, & ofte reled in aȝayn, so Reniarde watz wyle. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville (Cambr.) (1869) 121 (MED) I do as Renard dide that made him ded in the wey for to be cast in to the carte and thanne haue of the heringe. 1481 W. Caxton tr. (1970) 6 Alle the beestis grete and smale cam to the courte sauf reynard the fox. 1494 Loutfut MS f. 21v, in at Rennart For the rennart is suttell in takin of prais. 1562 G. Legh f. 142 He beareth Or, a Saltier Sable, betwene fower Raynardes passaunte proper. 1602 R. Carew i. f. 22 Then Master Reignard ransacketh euery corner of his wily skonce. 1679 in J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush (new ed.) iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher sig. Aa/1 Prick ye the fearefull hare through cross wayes, sheep-walks, And force the crafty Reynard [(ed. 1) Reimald] climb the quicksetts. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in 241 Before the break of Day, Saint Reynard through the Hedge had made his way. 1708 O. Dykes 46 Let Reynard loose after five or six Years taming,..and I would not be a Goose in his Way, for the Kingdom. 1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in 158 Where prowling Reynard trod his nightly round. 1842 J. Wilson I. 39 After the first Tally-ho, Reynard is rarely seen, till he is run in upon. 1873 H. B. Tristram ix. 168 A foxhunt after a reynard who started under our horses' feet. 1908 A. J. Dawson x. 168 Reynard picked up the dead rabbit and..trotted leisurely down the run~way towards his own earth. 1922 July 265 The Reynard of the poem is shown to be a splendid fellow, with such gameness and pluck that, under the illusion of this galloping verse, he wins sympathy and a right ending. 1991 M. Duffy (1992) 2 Predatory Reynard has got his comeuppance sneaking down to drowsing henfolk. The snare was meant for rabbit or hare. β. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) 1898 (MED) Renaud com richchande þurȝ a roȝe greue, & alle þe rabel in a res, ryȝt at his helez.1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in 917 Such as hath a Reynold to his man, That by his shifts his Master furnish can.1605 W. Camden ii. 7 Chanteclere the cocke was caried away by Reynold the Foxe.1667 in J. Playford 67 Acteon shall eccho my Hounds and my Horn; Ne Reynold shall 'scape, though he run by the way.1815 III. vii. 242 Did you not hear Mrs. Hall say, on looking up at the framed and glazed fox-chase, ‘Ah, Master Reynolds, are you there!’ I protest..I thought her apostrophe had been to the artist instead of the animal!1875 W. D. Parish 94 When I was first told that ‘Mus Reynolds come along last night’ he was spoken of so intimately that I supposed he must be some old friend.1896 E. Rhys 5 Mister Reynolds just leapt cannily from the staithes.1760 T. Jefferys I. 48 A small river..discharges itself into the bottom of the bay, and is known by the name of..the River of Foxes, on account of the neighbourhood of the Outagamis, commonly called Renards, or Foxes. 1762 T. Hutchins Jrnl. 26 June in (1926) 10 369 I delivered the same Message to the Meynomeneys that I had done to the Sax and Reynard Nations. 1791 J. Long 150 As we landed, the Renards took our Indians by the hand, and invited them into their camp. 1811 Z. M. Pike 123 The Reynards reside in three villages... The Sacs, Reynards, and Jowas..claim the land from the entrance of the Jauflione on the western side of the Mississippi, up the latter river to the Jowa,..and westward to the Missouri. 1875 C. R. Tuttle iii. 71 We may, with good results, give a list of the different names by which the Indian tribes of Wisconsin have been known:—..Foxes = Reynard = Outagamies. 1911 E. H. Blair tr. N. Perrot I. xxiii. 245 I learned on the road, before arriving there, that a body of fifteen hundred men from the Bay—Renards, Maskouetechs, Kikapous—who were going to war against the Scioux, intended to pillage my stock of merchandise. 1997 W. J. Eccles in J. L. Allen II. xi. 190 When he strove to make them end their wars with the Sakis, Puants, Sioux, and Renards, it was to no avail. Derivatives 1656 T. Blount [after Cotgr.] Regnardism, fox-like subtilty, sliness, craftiness. 1658 tr. B. Pascal (ed. 2) Additionals 40 An ingenious, but withal a diabolical piece of Reynardisme. 1676 E. Coles Regnardism, the subtilty of..a fox. 1877 R. F. Burton II. xvii. 6 His mind, masterly in Reynardism, knows what your dull dishonesty will be doing, probably before you know it yourself. 1947 S. Sassoon (1984) 139 (title) Reynardism Revisited. 1656 T. Blount [after Cotgr.] Regnardise, to play the Fox. 1676 E. Coles Regnardise, to practise..the subtilty of..a fox. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400 |