stroublen

Middle English

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Alternative forms

strabil, strobyll; strouble, strubill (Early Scots)
strobelyn, strubbelyn (Promptorium Parvulorum)

Etymology

An apheretic form of distroublen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstruːb(ə)lən/, /ˈstrub(ə)lən/

Verb

stroublen (third-person singular simple present stroubleth, present participle stroublende, stroublynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle stroubled) (Late Middle English)

To disturb or unsettle (especially mentally)
To break, impair, or destroy.
To struggle or fight with.
(Early Scots) To pollute or adulterate air.

Conjugation

Conjugation of *stroublen* (weak in -ed)
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) stroublen, strouble

1st-person singular	strouble	stroubled
2nd-person singular	stroublest	stroubledest
3rd-person singular	stroubleth	stroubled
subjunctive singular	strouble	stroubled
imperative singular	strouble	—

plural¹	stroublen, strouble	stroubleden, stroublede
imperative plural	stroubleth, strouble	—

participles	stroublynge, stroublende	stroubled

¹ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

Middle Scots: struble, strubill

References

“strǒublen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
“strubill, strouble, v..”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.