melodye

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French melodie, from Latin melodia.

Noun

melodye (plural melodyes)

  1. music; song; melody
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.
      And smale foweles maken melodye,
      That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
      (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants
  • Scots: melody
  • English: melody
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