- cortaysie,cortaysye,corteisy,cortesye,corteysye,curtasi,curtasie,curtasy,curtasye,curteisye,curtesie,curtessy,curtesy,curtesye,curteysy,curteysye,curtysy
FromAnglo-Normancurteisie,curtesie; equivalent tocurteis +-ie.[1]
The lack of spellings indicating a pronunciation with/s/ (such as*curteicie or*curteissie) would seem to indicate that this analogical pronunciation postdates Middle English.
- IPA(key): /ˌkurtæi̯ˈziː(ə)/,/ˈkurtiziː(ə)/[2]
curteisie (uncountable)
- Chivalric values;chivalrousness,honour,valour.
- Courteousness; polite behaviour.
- Kindness;charitable orcourteous behaviour.
- Acourtesy; a polite or kindact.
- ^“cǒurteisīe,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.
- ^Dobson, E. J. (1957)English pronunciation 1500-1700[1], second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford:Clarendon Press, published1968,→OCLC,§ 356,page930:
Similarlycourtesy andjealousy, recorded with the historical[z] by Gil and Bullokar respectively, may owe their later pronunciations with[s] (recorded incourtesy by Bullokar, Robinson, and Hodges and injealousy by Gil) to the influence of sbs. in -cy (e.g. privacy), as Ekwall suggests; but[s] incourteous andjealous is probably a more potent factor.
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