chien

fr-adj

chien (feminine chienne, masculine plural chiens, feminine plural chiennes)

chienne (feminine)
chiens (masculine plural)
chiennes (feminine plural)

Haitian Creole: chyen

Inherited from Middle French chien, from Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem (“dog”).

chien hargneux a toujours l’oreille déchirée


cane

Inherited from Middle French cane (“duck, female duck”, literally “loater, little boat”), from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kaną (“boat, vessel”). See Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”). Cognate with Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), Dutch kaan (“boat”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse knǫrr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).


chat

Louisiana Creole: sha

Inherited from Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

il ne faut pas réveiller le chat qui dort

quand le chat n’est pas là, les souris dansent

— Est-ce un chat ou une chatte ? » demanda Jean.
 Sophie ne se prononça point, Alice devint rouge et dit en riant :
« C’est un chat !
— En êtes-vous sûre ? demanda Jean.
— Ah bien! fit Alice, pour sûr ! »

1896, Paul Margueritte, “Une flaque”, in L’eau qui dort, Paris: Armand Colin et cⁱᵉ, […], section II, pages 102–103:

"Is it a tomcat or a girl cat?" asked Jean.
 Sophie not having spoken, Alice turned red and said, laughing:
 "It's a tomcat!"
 "Are you sure?" asked Jean.
 "Of course," said Alice, "for sure!"


taureau

Inherited from Old French torel, a derivation of tor, taur, from Latin taurus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *táwros.


vache

Haitian Creole: vach

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vache, from Latin vacca.

chacun son métier, les vaches seront bien gardées

parler français comme une vache espagnole


vache

C’est vache!


lion

Haitian Creole: lyon

Mauritian Creole: lyon

Seychellois Creole: lyon

Inherited from Old French lion, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin leōnem, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).

(dated) a style of elegant young man that came after the dandy


brebis

Inherited from Old French berbis, berbiz, from Vulgar Latin *berbicem, from Late Latin berbēcem, from Latin vervēx (“wether”).


chatte

Inherited from Middle French chatte, from Old French chate, from Late Latin catta, feminine of cattus. By surface analysis, chat + -e.

Puis-je te bouffer la chatte ?


poule

→ Dutch: poelepetaat (from poule pintade)

→ English: poule

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of Latin pullus.

Ma poule vient de pondre un œuf.


velle

Inherited from Old French veelle, from Late Latin vitella, diminutive of Latin vitula.


loup

Haitian Creole: lou

⇒ Mauritian Creole: lulu

⇒ Seychellois Creole: loulou

→ English: loo; Loup

Inherited from Middle French loup, from an old western dialectal variant lou of Old French leu and reformed analogically from the feminine louve from Latin lupus (“wolf”).
Cognate with Italian lupo; Portuguese and Spanish lobo.


chèvre

fr-noun

chèvre f (plural chèvres, masculine bouc)

English: chevon

Inherited from Middle French chevre, from Old French chievre, from Latin capra, from caper, from Proto-Indo-European *kápros.


coq

→ Esperanto: koko (through merger with English cock)

Inherited from Middle French coq, from Old French coc, from Late Latin coccus, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz. Cognate with English cock, Dutch kok, Danish kok, Icelandic kokkur.

Mais tout à coup, le coq gaulois claironne: Cocorico, debout petits soldats!

1916, “Verdun, on ne passe pas!”, performed by Eugène Joullot and Jack Cazoll:

But out of the blue, the Gallic rooster trumpets: cock-a-doodle-do, arise little soldiers!


jars

Probably from Frankish *gard (“spike, stick”) (with reference to the male's penis). See also however Gaulish *garanos (“crane”), from Proto-Celtic *garanos.


jument

→ Catalan: jument

→ Franco-Provençal: jument

From Old French jument, from Latin iūmentum.


dindon

dindon m (plural dindons, feminine dinde)


bouc

Inherited from Middle French bouc (“male goat”), from Old French buc (“male goat”), from Latin buccus, perhaps from the confluence of Frankish *bukk (“male goat”) (compare Old Dutch buck (“male goat”)), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz, *bukkô (“male goat”), and Gaulish *bukkos (“male goat”) (compare Middle Breton bouch (“goat”), Old Cornish boch (“goat”), Old Irish boc (“buck”)), from Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”), both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ- (“goat, buck, ram”). More at buck.

der

Au milieu de l’armoire on voyait sculpté un homme d’une singulière apparence : il ricanait toujours, car on ne pouvait pas dire qu’il riait. Il avait des jambes de bouc, de petites cornes à la tête et une longue barbe. Les enfants l’appelaient le Grand-général-commandant-en-chef-Jambe-de-Bouc, nom qui peut paraître long et difficile, mais titre dont peu de personnes ont été honorées jusqu’à présent.

1845, Hans Christian Andersen, La Bergère et le Ramoneur:

In the middle of the wardrobe was a sculpture of a man with a peculiar appearance. He was always sneering – you couldn't call it laughing. He had the legs of a goat, little horns on his head and a long beard. The children called him Grand-General-Commander-in-Chief-Goat-Legs. The name may seem long and difficult, but very few people have been honoured with that title until now.


génisse

fr-noun

génisse f (plural génisses, masculine bouvillon)

Inherited from Old French genice, from Vulgar Latin *jēnicia, alteration of *iūnicia, from Latin iūnix (“young cow, calf, heifer”).


biche

Inherited from Middle French biche, from Old French biche (“doe, female deer”) and bisse (“wild animal”), of uncertain origin and relation. The form bisse is almost certainly from Vulgar Latin bīstia, variant of Latin bēstia (compare bête); however, the contemporary biche is an enigma, and possibly unrelated. It may be the Picard or Norman form of bisse, (compare chent for cent) or may share origin with Middle French bique (“nanny-goat”), believed to be derived from Proto-Germanic *bik (“goat”) or perhaps related to Icelandic bikkja (“old mare, nag”). More at bouc.

darling, sweetheart (affectionate name for one's girlfriend)


verrat

Inherited from Old French ver (with the suffix -at), from Latin verrēs.


éléphanteau

éléphanteau m (plural éléphanteaux, feminine éléphantelle)

éléphanteaux (plural)
éléphantelle (feminine)


étalon

Inherited from Old French estalon, from Frankish *stallo, from *stall (“stable”) where the horses were kept. More at English stall.


canette

→ Catalan: canet

→ English: canette

Inherited from Middle French kanete (“vase, pitcher for serving beer”), a diminutive (with suffix -ette) of Medieval Latin cana, canna (“can, jug, vessel”), from Frankish *kanna (“jug, pitcher, can”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“tankard, mug, can”), from Proto-Indo-European *gandʰ-, *gan- (“a vessel, tub”). Cognate with Old High German channa (“can”), Old English canne (“can”). More at can.


canette

Inherited from Middle French canette. By surface analysis, cane + -ette.


faisan

fr-noun

faisan m (plural faisans, feminine faisane or faisande)

faisans (plural)
faisane (feminine)
faisande (feminine)

→ Romanian: fazan

Inherited from Middle French faisan, from Old French faisan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).


bouquin

From Middle French boucquin (“old billy goat”), from bouc (“he-goat”) + -quin or -in.


bouquin

From Middle French bouquin (“mouth of a hunting horn”), perhaps ultimately from Latin bucca (“mouth”).


chamelle

fr-noun

chamelle f (plural chamelles, masculine chameau)


truie

Inherited from Late Latin troia. Cognate with Italian troia, Occitan truèja, Catalan truja, Walloon troye. Further origin uncertain. It has been compared to Latin porcus Troiānus (literally “Trojan pig”), a singularly attested name for a stuffed roast of pork, so called by humorous comparison to the “filled” Trojan horse. More likely from a Gaulish *trogja, from a root meaning “to pull” and thence also “fertile”. Finally it might be an imitative formation after the sound of a pig's grunt.


chevreuil

→ English: chevreuil

Inherited from Old French chevruel, chevrol, from Latin capreolus.

Odocoileus virginianus
Odocoileus virginianus#Translingual

(North America) any of various local species of deer in the genus Odocoileus; mostly the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)


reine des animaux

fr-noun

reine des animaux f (plural reines des animaux, masculine roi des animaux)

reines des animaux (plural)
roi des animaux (masculine)


roi des animaux

roi des animaux m (plural rois des animaux, feminine reine des animaux)

rois des animaux (plural)
reine des animaux (feminine)

[I]l y a mis aussi les deux lions qui, suivant la légende, creusèrent la fosse du saint : ces deux lions sont, comme les deux hermites, fort rapetissés par l’immensité de l’antre, et ce n’est pas là ce qu’il falloit : c’est une chose merveilleuse et grande en soi que ces deux rois des animaux occupés à creuser la fosse d’un anachorète ; […]

1810, Fr[ançois] Guizot, De l’état des beaux-arts en France, et du salon de 1810, Paris: Chez Maradan, […], page 93:


éléphantelle

éléphantelle f (plural éléphantelles, masculine éléphanteau)

éléphantelles (plural)
éléphanteau (masculine)


merlette

From merle + -ette, literally “little blackbird”, the word for the male blackbird being mostly female until the 16th century (a male: "une merle", a little male: "une merlette").
Meaning 2 (hen blackbird) appears in 1839.


hase

From German Hase, from Middle High German hase, from Old High German haso, from Proto-Germanic *hasô (“hare”). More at hare.


singesse

fr-noun

singesse f (plural singesses, masculine singe)


morailles

From Old Occitan moralha, from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”), the like source as in morion (“a kind of helmet with no visor”), moraine (“amassment of rocks on a glacier”).

(farriery) barnacle, twitch, a kind of pincers or vise to fix the mouth of a horse to yield the opportunity of surgery


merlesse

merlesse f (plural merlesses, masculine merle)

Un jour que Catherine avait plus songé à chercher des nids dans les buissons qu’à garder ses bêtes, elle trouva vers le soir un nid de merles avec trois gros petits déjà bien emplumés. Ils ne paraissaient guère farouches, car, lorsqu’elle leur montrait le bout de son doigt en imitant le cri de la merlesse, ils ouvraient leurs becs jaunes et montraient leurs larges gosiers tout roses.

1874, George Sand, Contes d’une grand’mère, Michel Lévy frères, page 159:

One day, when Catherine had thought more of looking for nests in the bushes than of keeping her animals, towards evening she found a blackbird’s nest with three large cubs already well feathered. They hardly seemed fierce, for when she showed them the tip of her finger, imitating the cry of the blackbird, they opened their yellow beaks and showed their large pink throats.


poule faisane

poule faisane f (plural poules faisanes, masculine faisan)

poules faisanes (plural)
faisan (masculine)