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^[1], 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.