resoun

From Anglo-Norman raisun, from Old French reson, from Latin ratiō, ratiōnem.

• reson, reisun, raison

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːsun/, /rɛˈsuːn/

resoun (plural resouns)

1. reason
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Er that I ferther in this tale pace,
     Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun
     To telle yow al the condicioun
     Of ech of hem, so as it semed me.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• English: reason
• Yola: raaison, raison

• “rē̆sǒun, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French reson.

• reson

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈsuːn/

resoun (plural resouns)

1. echoing sound, reverberation

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

• “resǒun, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• resoun in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913