esteit

Old French

Verb

esteit

  1. Anglo-Norman form of estoit, third-person singular imperfect indicative of estre, ester
    • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland‎, lines 10–23:
      Li reis Marsilie esteit en Sarraguce. / Alez en est en un verger suz l'umbre; / Sur un perrun de marbre bloi se culchet, / Envirun lui plus de vint milie humes.
      The King Marsile was is Zaragoza. He went in a garden beneath the shade; laid himself on a large blonde [or blue] marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.
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