porte coleice

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Old French

Etymology

From porte (door) +‎ colëice (sliding; able to slide).

Pronunciation

  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾtə kuləˈit͡sə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾtə kul(ə)ˈisə/

Noun

porte coleice oblique singularf (oblique plural porte coleices, nominative singular porte coleice, nominative plural porte coleices)

  1. portcullis

Descendants

  • Middle French: porte coulisse
  • Middle English: portcolyse

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (couleis)
  • Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 33.