User:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word User:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word User:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say User:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word User:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French you have here. The definition of the word User:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofUser:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

This page is a list of Middle French terms used in etymologies on the English Wiktionary in the form {{term|...|lang=frm}}. It was originally compiled by TheDaveRoss (thank you) but is now updated by hand. Please DO add more terms which are used in etymologies, please DO NOT add miscellaneous requests, use WT:RE:frm for that.

Best sources:

Non-letter

  1. -el (-let)
  2. -quin (-quin)

A

  1. amadou (amadou)
  2. ambassée (embassy)
  3. ample (ample)

B

  1. bievre (bièvre)
  2. boel (bowel)
  3. bougeon (bludgeon) - Google Books and Godefroy don't have this. Closest seems to be boujon. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:41, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
  4. briquet (briquet)

C

  1. cardon (cardoon)
  2. carousser (carouse) - best I can find is carous in Rabelais, apparently meaning 'excessive drinking' (the citation it appears in is very short and therefore ambiguous). Renard Migrant (talk) 20:42, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
  3. cauteriser (cauterize) - Google Books has for some reason started to let me down. I cited it as Old French, albeit late Old French. Renard Migrant (talk) 00:52, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
  4. cordon bleu (blue ribbon)

D

  1. deprecation (deprecation)
  2. dividende (dividend) http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/dividende says 1555 math which isn't really enough for me to define it. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

E

  1. économiste (economist) - conflicting sources, some sources say not attested until 1767. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
  2. esquiver (esquiver) - this meets CFI as http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/esquiver lists it as 1600, just I'd like to see the citation with my own eyes first, and I can't find it. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

F

  1. filz a putain (fils de pute)
  2. flot (flot)
  3. foule (foule)
  4. fourban (forban)
  5. fromenté (furmint) - can't find this at all, perhaps a mistake. Renard Migrant (talk) 23:27, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

G

H

I

i and j are both used to represent the consonant j in Middle French

J

i and j are both used to represent the consonant in Middle French

L

  1. lanier (lanner falcon) - I can't find this to mean "cowardly". Renard Migrant (talk) 12:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

M

  1. macquiller (maquiller)
  2. median (median)
  3. muse (muse)

N

P

R

S

T

  1. tavaiolle (tavaïolle)

V

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia