[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Charles Wohlers]

Apparently not. The OED has the oldest meaning (from an Anglo-Saxon Gospel) 
as the master of the house. Earliest use as a verb seems to be in the 
1400's.

Always happy to get out his OED with the microscopic printing,

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: ME Michaud
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 12:23 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

Wasn't husband originally a verb that got itself nouned?
-M

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Roger Stokes <
roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> The Oxford English Dictionary records "father" being used as a verb in
> 1483 in the sense of begetting (procreation) and 1548 as the originator of
> something else.
>