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French
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Etymology
From Old French uistre, oistre, from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). The h is unetymological (no h in the Latin ostrea), but it used to disambiguate the pronunciation in the times when u and v were variants of the same letter, cf. huit, huile.
Pronunciation
Noun
huître f (plural huîtres)
- oyster
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