Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

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The Armorican Word Menez.
I have been induced, in consequence of the scene of one of the Canterbury Tales being
In Armorike that called is Bretaigne,
to re-examine that tale (the Frankleine's) in the expectation that in it, if anywhere, some light might be thrown upon this newly discovered Chaucerian word menez ; and I think I have succeeded in detecting its use in the sense of points or summits of rocks emerging from the surface of the water.