mistrum

Middle English

Etymology

From mys- +‎ trum, compare untrum (“feeble”).

Adjective

mistrum

1. (hapax, Early Middle English) scant, poor

Further reading

• Hans Kurath (1975) Middle English Dictionary, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 276: “c1230(?a1200) Ancr. 134/23: Loke nu hwa gruccheð . . mistrum mel [Tit [erroneously]: of mistime meal] of unsauuree metes.”
• “mistrum, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: “c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)134/23 : Loke nu hwa gruccheð, ȝef ha þencheð wel heron, mistrum [Cleo: mistrume; Tit: mistime] mel, of unsauuree metes, of poure pitance.”.
• Bella Millett (2005) Ancrene Wisse: A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Ms 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts (in Middle English): “mistrum adj. scanty, poor, unsustaining etc.”