chien

fr-noun

chien m (plural chiens, feminine chienne)

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


pie

Inherited from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”), feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”).


tigre

tigre m (plural tigres, feminine tigresse)


mauve

Inherited from Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.


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”).


ours

Haitian Creole: ous

Louisiana Creole: lours, lous

Mauritian Creole: lours, lurs

Seychellois Creole: lours

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *orssos
Latin ursus
Old French urs
Middle French ours
French oursInherited from Middle French ours, from Old French urs, from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos.
The Early Modern French pronunciation was /uʁ/ before consonants, /uʁz/ before vowels, and /uʁs/ in pausa. For the most part, the pausal pronunciations were eventually lost, but in some cases they were re-established as the basic form (reinforced in part by the spelling, in part by related words; in this case perhaps the feminine ourse).

etymon

il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué


omelette

→ English: omelette, omelet

→ Persian: املت (omlet)

→ Danish: omelet

desc

→ Portuguese: omelete, omeleta, omelette

→ Russian: омле́т (omlét)

on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs


hamster

Borrowed from German Hamster and ultimately of Balto-Slavic origin.


chamois

→ Esperanto: ĉamo

Ido: chamo

→ Romanian: chamois, șamoa

→ Spanish: chamuz

Inherited from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”).


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

Soudain, d’un seul élan, cela se précipita sur lui, avec un miaulement plaintif et la queue droite. C’était un jeune chat, menu et décharné, qui frottait sa tête contre les jambes de Bert, en ronronnant.

1910, Henry-D. Davray, B. Kozakiewicz (tr.), La Guerre dans les airs, translation of The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, page 335:

It advanced suddenly upon him with a rush, with a little meawling cry and tail erect. It rubbed its head against him and purred. It was a tiny, skinny little kitten.

— 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!"

Alors, quand il repère, sur le Web, une scène croustillante montrant un groupe en train de se livrer à « une partie de chat, à poil, dans un camp de la mort », c’est comme un déclic.

2023 August, Arnaud de Montjoye, “En touriste à Auschwitz”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 24:


pigeon

fr-noun

pigeon m (plural pigeons, feminine pigeonne)

Inherited from Old French pyjon, from Late Latin pīpiōnem (“chirping bird”), from Latin pīpiāre (“chirp”).

(colloquial) patsy (an easily trickable, naive person)


mouflon

→ English: mouflon

→ German: Mufflon


cheval

cheval m (plural chevaux, feminine jument)

Antillean Creole: chouval

Canadian French: joual

Guianese Creole: chouval

Haitian Creole: chwal

Michif: zhwal

→ English: cheval

→ Esperanto: ĉevalo

→ Garifuna: xuval

→ Malagasy: soavaly

→ Mi'kmaq: te'sipow

Inherited from Middle French cheval, from Old French cheval, from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin.

à cheval donné on ne regarde pas la bride

à cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents

ne pas se trouver sous le sabot d’un cheval

ne pas se trouver sous les sabots d’un cheval

(slang) a tall and slim woman, a beautiful woman (only in the feminine form, jument (lit., mare))


cardinal

fr-adj

cardinal (feminine cardinale, masculine plural cardinaux, feminine plural cardinales)

cardinale (feminine)
cardinaux (masculine plural)
cardinales (feminine plural)


taureau

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


poisson

Haitian Creole: pwason

Louisiana Creole: pwason

Mauritian Creole: pwason

Seychellois Creole: pwason

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French poisson, peisson, from an older form peis with suffix -on, from Latin piscem, see below. Alternatively, but less likely, through a Vulgar Latin *pisciō, pisciōnem. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Poisson sans boisson est poison.


grue

→ Portuguese: grua

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *grua, from Latin gruem.

La Grue se laisse enfin persuader par ses serments

(Can we date this quote?), Phaedrus, translated by Levasseur and J. Chenu, Fables, sourced from https://teach-me-a-language.help/the-wolf-and-the-crane-english-french/:

At length, on his taking an oath, a Crane was prevailed on


once

→ Turkish: ons

(figuratively, by extension) a little bit


kangourou

→ Basque: kanguru

→ Corsican: canguru

→ Italian: canguro

→ Khmer: កង់ហ្គូរូ (kɑngguuruu)

→ Polish: kangur

→ Romanian: cangur

→ Seychellois Creole: kangourou

→ Turkish: kanguru

Borrowed from English kangaroo; ultimately from Guugu Yimidhirr gangurru.


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


sole

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.


serpent

fr-noun

serpent m (plural serpents, feminine serpente)

Inherited from Middle French serpent, from Old French serpent, from Latin serpentem, accusative form of serpēns, from serpō (“crawl, creep”).


autour

From au + tour, replacing Old French entor (compare alentour).

On ne sera jamais seul autour de nous ; on est une meute solide, on est une bande de loups.

You'll never be alone around us; we're a solid pack, we're a pack of wolves.

Entre 1 et 2 ans, l’enfant […] comprend de mieux en mieux le langage, il est de plus en plus à même de comprendre ce qui se passe autour de lui […]

1995, Jean-Pierre Dumont et al., Psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, volume 1, pages 52–3:

Between 1 and 2 years, the child […] understands language better and better, he's more and more able to understand what's happening around him […]


cobra

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.


panda

Coined by Georges Cuvier in 1825. Of unclear ultimate origin but probably from the second element of nigálya-pónya, a form recorded by Brian Houghton Hodgson and possibly ultimately derived from regional Tibetan ཕོ་ཉ (pho nya), whose usual meaning is "messenger".


crocodile

Antillean Creole: krokodil

Mauritian Creole: krokodil

Seychellois Creole: krokodil

→ Romanian: crocodil

→ Persian: کروکودیل (krokodil)

From Old French cocodril, inherited from Latin crocodīlus with metathesis, later respelled to match the Latin form. Compare English crocodile, itself respelled from Middle English cocodrill.


dugong

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.


mule

Inherited from Old French mule, from Latin mūla, feminine of mūlus.


goujon

From Old French gojon, goujon, frmo Latin gōbiōnem, from gōbius, from Ancient Greek κωβιός (kōbiós).


brebis

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


lice

Probably from Vulgar Latin *licia, from Latin lycisca, feminine of lyciscus (“wolf dog”).

(archaic) brach, bitch hound (specifically, dog used for breeding hunting dogs)


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


pointer

pointer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pointant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
pointé (participle past)
pointe (first-person indicative present singular)
pointes (indicative present second-person singular)
pointe (indicative present singular third-person)
pointons (first-person indicative plural present)
pointez (indicative plural present second-person)
pointent (indicative plural present third-person)
pointais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pointais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pointait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pointions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pointiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pointaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pointai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
pointas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
pointa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
pointâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
pointâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
pointèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
pointerai (first-person future indicative singular)
pointeras (future indicative second-person singular)
pointera (future indicative singular third-person)
pointerons (first-person future indicative plural)
pointerez (future indicative plural second-person)
pointeront (future indicative plural third-person)
pointerais (conditional first-person singular)
pointerais (conditional second-person singular)
pointerait (conditional singular third-person)
pointerions (conditional first-person plural)
pointeriez (conditional plural second-person)
pointeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
pointe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
pointes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
pointe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pointions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pointiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
pointent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
pointasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pointasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pointât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pointassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pointassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pointassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
pointe (imperative second-person singular)
pointons (first-person imperative plural)
pointez (imperative plural second-person)

→ German: pointieren

From point + -er, from the past participle of poindre.

(intransitive) to clock in, to clock on, to punch in; to clock out, to clock off, to punch out (to enter or leave a workplace by punching a time card)


bride

→ Portuguese: brida

Inherited from Middle French bride, from Old French bride (“rein, bridle”), from Middle High German brīdel (“rein, bridle”), from Old High German brīdil (“rein, bridle”) (compare also Old High German brittil (“rein, strap”), French bretelle), from Proto-West Germanic *brigdil (“bridle”).
Compare Spanish brida, Italian briglia. More at bridle.


caviar

→ Danish: kaviar

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kaviar

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kaviar

→ Swedish: kaviar

Borrowed from Italian caviaro or Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Persian خاویار (xâvyâr).


hibou

Eventually imitative. Possibly from or influenced by a descendant of Proto-West Germanic *hūō and/or Proto-Germanic *uwwilǭ. Compare Old High German hūwo, ūvo, (h)ūwila and, as a borrowing into Romance, Catalan òbila, òliba. If so, related to English owl. Compare also Latin būbo.

onomatopoeic

imitative

owl (specifically, those species of owls with ear tufts; those without ear tufts are chouettes)


chouette

→ Romansch: tschuetta

Inherited from Old French çuete, diminutive of choë, cauwe, from Vulgar Latin *cawa or from Old Dutch *kāwa (“jackdaw”) (compare Dutch kauw, English chough), from Proto-West Germanic *kahu, from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, cry”).

der

owl (specifically, those species of owls without ear tufts; those with ear tufts are hiboux)


martin

bird of either the starling family, or of the kingfisher family


baleine

Inherited from Old French baleine, borrowed from Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).


fou

Derived from Spanish alfil, from Arabic اَلْفِيل (al-fīl, “elephant; bishop (chess piece)”), influenced by Etymology 1.


axolotl

Unadapted borrowing from Classical Nahuatl āxōlōtl.


lieu

Inherited from Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.

any of several fish from the Pollachius family


girafe

→ Catalan: girafa

→ Luxembourgish: Giraff

→ Polish: żyrafa

→ Romanian: girafă f

desctree

→ Russian: жираф (žiraf)
→ Georgian: ჟირაფი (žirapi)
→ Ingrian: žirafa

→ Swedish: giraff
→ Finnish: kirahvi

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-der.?
Classical Persian سرنا
Proto-Indo-European *ped-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *pṓds
Proto-Indo-Iranian *pā́ts
Proto-Iranian *pā́dah
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎭 (p-a-d)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Middle French giraffe
French girafe
Inherited from Middle French giraffe, from Italian giraffa, from Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa).

etymon

une girafe mâle


gibbon

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix, probably from an English folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) with an Aslian root.


barge

Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *bardea, of Gaulish origin.


scare

From Latin scarus (also genus name Scarus), from Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros).


porc

Inherited from Middle French porc, from Old French porc, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).


poulet

→ Switzerland German: Poulet

Inherited from Old French, from poule (“hen”) + -et (“diminutive suffix”).

af

Dans un tweet, depuis effacé, la CGT Publicis évoquait le traitement médiatique réservé à un «poulet grillé», pour parler du policier gravement brûlé en marge des défilés du 1er-Mai à Paris.

2017 May 2, “Policier brûlé le 1er-Mai : la CGT ironise sur le "poulet grillé" et crée une polémique”, in Paris Match:

In a tweet, since deleted, CGT Publicis [a trade union branch] mentioned the media's coverage of a "pig roast", referring to a police officer who suffered severe burns during the 1 May marches in Paris.

(slang, derogatory) policeman (especially a plain-clothes police detective)


renard

fr-noun

renard m (plural renards, feminine renarde, diminutive renardeau)

renards (plural)
renarde (feminine)
renardeau (diminutive)

Inherited from Middle French renard, from Old French renart, the name of the fox in the medieval Roman de Renart. A Germanic personal name, from Frankish *Raginahardu, from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, whence Reineke (name of the fox, after the same tale). Displaced goupil (from Latin vulpecula), possibly by way of taboo avoidance.

coudre la peau du renard à celle du lion

Renart le goupil

= German: Reineke Fuchs; English: Reynard the Fox

(nautical) ancient navigation tool: circular, wooden or copper plate, which enables the helmsman to keep a record of wind conditions by inserting pegs at specific positions

hardly detectable cracks or holes causing a water tank or pond to empty itself


pic

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin pīcus.


corgi

Borrowed from English corgi, from Welsh corgi, a compound of cor (“dwarf”) and ci (“dog”).


carlin

Probably from Carlin, nickname of Italian actor Carlo Bestinazzi (1713-1783) whose Harlequin mask was humorously compared to the dog's nose.


merle

merle m (plural merles, feminine merlesse or merlette)

merles (plural)
merlesse (feminine)
merlette (feminine)

Inherited from Latin merula, the word for the male blackbird being mostly female until the 16th century. Probable influence of the Late Latin masculine form merulus (compare Italian merlo, Spanish mirlo).

Turdus merula
Turdus merula#Translingual


ocelot

Coined by Buffon from Nahuatl ōcēlōtl (“jaguar”).


gecko

From Dutch gekko, further possibly from Malay or Acehnese. Compare English gecko for more.


tapir

→ English: tapir

→ German: Tapir

→ Ottoman Turkish: طاپر
Turkish: tapir

→ Polish: tapir
→ Kashubian: tapir

→? Portuguese: tapir

desctree

→? Spanish: tapir
→ Catalan: tapir
→ Dutch: tapir
→ Tagalog: tapir

→ Swedish: tapir


martinet

multi-tail whip, comprising leather or whipcord thongs fixed on a handle, to dust off or to administer a beating (usually to a child's bottom)


martinet

martin (any of the swallow-like birds, black with a white throat, of family Hirundinidae)


veau

Inherited from Old French veel, vedel, inherited from Latin vitellus. Doublet of vitellus.

Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagophilus groenlandicus#Translingual

white-coated harp seal pup (Pagophilus groenlandicus)


caribou

→ Dutch: kariboe

→ English: caribou

→ Italian: caribù

→ Irish: carabú

→ Portuguese: caribu

→ Russian: кари́бу (karíbu)

→ Spanish: caribú
→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: caribú

Borrowed from Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa.


singe

Inherited from Middle French singe, from Old French singe, inherited from Latin sīmius.

ce n’est pas à un vieux singe qu’on apprend à faire des grimaces


babiroussa

Borrowed from Malay babi rusa (“babiroussa, deer hog”).


chevreau

→ Finnish: sauro

→ Macedonian: ше́вро (šévro)

→ Polish: szewro

→ Russian: шевро́ (ševró)

From chèvre + -eau, or from Old French chevrel, diminutive of chievre or possibly from Latin capellus influenced by chèvre.


toucan

→ English: toucan

→ Finnish: tukaani


agneau

Inherited from Old French agnel, aignel, agniau, from Latin agnellus (according to the TLFi, an early borrowing), diminutive of agnus.

innocent comme l’agneau qui vient de naître


âne

Inherited from Middle French asne, from Old French asne, from Latin asinus.

on ne saurait faire boire un âne qui n’a pas soif


agnelle

Inherited from Old French, from Latin agnella, possibly borrowed.


lemming

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.


autruche

Inherited from Old French ostruce, according to the TLFi, from Vulgar Latin *austrūthiō, from Latin avis (“bird”) + strūthiō (“ostrich”), from Ancient Greek στρουθίων (strouthíōn). Compare Spanish avestruz and Italian struzzo.


pangolin

→ Romanian: pangolin

/pɑ̃.ɡɔ.lɛ̃/


oiseau

fr-noun

oiseau m (plural oiseaux, feminine oiselle)

Antillean Creole: zwazo

Haitian Creole: zwazo

Louisiana Creole: zozo, zwazo

Mauritian Creole: zwazo

Seychellois Creole: zwazo

Inherited from Middle French oyseau, from Old French oisel c. 1100, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Compare Norman ouaîsé, Franco-Provençal usél.
Compare also the French oie (“goose”), derived from another diminutive of avis.


puma

→ Romanian: puma

Borrowed from Spanish puma, from Quechuan.


caille

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French quaille.

1881, "Le boute-selle" in French Nursery Rhymes, Librarie Hachette & cie, page 25

To Versailles, to Versailles, / On the tail of a big spotted cow.

A Versailles, à Versailles, / Sur la queue d’un’ grand’ vach’ caille.


forger

forger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
forgeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
forgé (participle past)
forge (first-person indicative present singular)
forges (indicative present second-person singular)
forge (indicative present singular third-person)
forgeons (first-person indicative plural present)
forgez (indicative plural present second-person)
forgent (indicative plural present third-person)
forgeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
forgeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
forgeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
forgions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
forgiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
forgeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
forgeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
forgeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
forgea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
forgeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
forgeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
forgèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
forgerai (first-person future indicative singular)
forgeras (future indicative second-person singular)
forgera (future indicative singular third-person)
forgerons (first-person future indicative plural)
forgerez (future indicative plural second-person)
forgeront (future indicative plural third-person)
forgerais (conditional first-person singular)
forgerais (conditional second-person singular)
forgerait (conditional singular third-person)
forgerions (conditional first-person plural)
forgeriez (conditional plural second-person)
forgeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
forge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
forges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
forge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
forgions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
forgiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
forgent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
forgeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
forgeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
forgeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
forgeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
forgeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
forgeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
forge (imperative second-person singular)
forgeons (first-person imperative plural)
forgez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French forger, forgier, from Latin fabricāre. Doublet of fabriquer.

c’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron


mouton

Haitian Creole: mouton

Louisiana Creole: mouton

Seychellois Creole: mouton

→ English: mouton

>? Galician: motóa

Inherited from Middle French mouton, from Old French mouton, from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos.

(figuratively) lemming, sheep (someone who follows a crowd and succumbs to groupthink)


thon

→ Romanian: ton

→ Turkish: ton

From Latin thunnus, thynnus (itself from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos)), possibly through the intermediate of Old Occitan ton.


chatte

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

T’as eu d’la chatte de trouver un job si vite, compte tenu d’la crise actuelle.

You've had luck to find a job so quickly, on account of the current crisis.


chevalier

chevalier m (plural chevaliers, feminine chevalière)

chevaliers (plural)
chevalière (feminine)

→ Turkish: şövalye

→ Persian: شوالیه (šovâliye)

Inherited from Middle French chevalier, from Old French chevalier, from Late Latin caballārius, from Latin caballus. Doublet of cavalier.


carcajou

→ English: carcajou

→ Portuguese: carcaju

(Canada, colloquial) a person who is fierce or otherwise displays the characters of a wolverine


minette

minette f (plural minettes, masculine minet)

→ Dutch: minetten (“cunnilingus”) (Flemish and Limburgish)

→ Russian: мине́т (minét, “blowjob”)

→ Armenian: մինետ (minet, “blowjob”)

→ Georgian: მინეტი (mineṭi, “blowjob”)

→ Estonian: minett (“blowjob”)

→ Polish: mineta (“cunnilingus”)

→ Portuguese: minete (“cunnilingus”)


vive

(ichthyology) any of certain kind of fish, mostly in the family Trachinidae, but especially the sand tilefish (Malacanthus plumieri) or the Guinean weever (Trachinus armatus) From FishBase


dauphin

Haitian Creole: dofen

Inherited from Old French dalphin, from Latin delphinus.

(heraldry) dolphin; the animal used as a charge


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.


poule

→ English: pool

pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)


chaton

chaton m (plural chatons, feminine chatonne)

First attested in Old French, from chat + -on


persan

persan m (countable and uncountable, plural persans)


souris

Michif: soorii

Inherited from Middle French souris, from Old French soris, soriz, from Vulgar Latin *sōrīcem, alteration of the Classical Latin sōricem (“shrew”).
The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.


milan

→ German: Milan

→ Romanian: milan

Borrowed from Old Occitan milan, from Vulgar Latin *mīlānus, alteration of Latin mīlvinus, from mīlvus.


sardine

→ English: sardine
→ Welsh: sardîn

Les sardines sont ailleurs l’aliment du peuple ; celles que nous prenons aux environs de Phalère mériteraient d’être servies à la table des dieux, surtout quand on ne les laisse qu’un instant dans l’huile.

1788, Jean-Jacques_Barthélemy, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce:

The pilchards taken in other countries are the food of the common people ; those we catch in the vicinity of Phalerum are worthly of the table of the gods, especially when left to steep only for a moment in boiling oil.


bidet

→ Greek: μπιντές (bintés)

→ Polish: bidet

→ Portuguese: bidê, bidé (Portugal)

→ Persian: بیده (bide)

→ English: bidet (see there for further descendants)

From Middle French bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin, + -et. Possibly related to Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”), itself probably related to Proto-West Germanic *biti (“bite; horse's bit”); or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix.
Modern sense derives from analogy with the straddling of a bidet and the straddling of a small horse.

unk

unknown


griffon

Inherited from Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).


dressage

→ English: dressage


triton

Learned borrowing from Latin Trītōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρίτων (Trítōn).

triton rugueux


manchot

fr-noun

manchot m (plural manchots, feminine manchote)

Inherited from Old French manc (itself from Latin mancus) + -ot.


eyra

(architecture) cougar, (Puma yagouaroundi eyra)


ganga

From Catalan ganga, of imitative origin.

onomatopoeic

imitative


turbot

→ Catalan: turbot

→ English: turbot

Inherited from Old French [Term?], from Old Swedish törnbut, from törn (“thorn”) + but (“butt”). The name may have arisen because the fish has an appearance similar to a stump.


cheval qui boit dans son blanc

fr-noun

cheval qui boit dans son blanc m (plural chevaux qui boivent dans leur blanc)

chevaux qui boivent dans leur blanc (plural)

horse that has a white nose and the rest of its body another colour


velle

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


guillemot

Diminutive of the male given name Guillaume, used as a common noun.


serin

Apparently borrowed from an early language of southern France (compare Old Occitan cerena (“hunting-bird”)), from Latin sirena, from Latin Sīrēn (“siren”), from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). Doublet of sirène.


harfang

Bubo scandiacus
Bubo scandiacus#Translingual


hérisson

hérisson m (plural hérissons, feminine hérissonne)

hérissons (plural)
hérissonne (feminine)

→ English: herisson

Inherited from Old French heriçun, heriçon, from a hypothetical Old French *eriz, from Latin erīcius (“hedgehog”), with the suffix -on added later; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰḗr. Another possibility may be a Vulgar Latin root *ērīcio, ērīciōnem, but this would have seemingly produced *erçon in Old French. Compare, however, Catalan eriçó and Romansch erizun. See also oursin.


daman

Borrowed from Arabic دَمَان (إِسْرَائِيل) (damān (ʔisrāʔīl), literally “lamb (of Israel)”).

bor+

دَمَان (إِسْرَائِيل)

hyrax (any species of the order Hyracoidea)


zibeline

From Middle French zubeline (“sable”), influenced by Italian zibellino, from Old French sabelin (“sable”), from Middle Low German sabel ; ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Doublet of sable.


yack

Borrowed from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.


grenouille

Inherited from Middle French (g)renouille, from Old French (g)renoille, from Vulgar Latin *rānucula, diminutive from Latin rāna (“frog”).

inh+

grenouille des montagnes à pattes jaunes

il n’y a pas de grenouille qui ne trouve son crapaud

(Louisiana) any small, green frog (e.g., leopard frog, tree frog, etc.)


fourchette

Les taux d’équipement par ménage dans la Communauté stagnent, dans une fourchette allant de 96 % en Espagne à 77 % en Suède.

Equipment to household ratios in the Community are becoming stagnant, within a range from 96 % in Spain to 77 % in Sweden.


phoque

→ Polish: foka f

→ Romanian: focă f

→ Turkish: fok

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē)bor.?
Latin phōcabor.
Middle French phoque
French phoque
Inherited from Middle French phoque f, focque m, borrowed from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).
Cognate with Italian foca f and Spanish foca f.

etymon

sealskin (fabric made from fur of seals)


chienne

(slang, vulgar) a bitch (objectionable woman)


serval

→ English: serval

→ German: Serval

→ Portuguese: serval

Translingual: Felis serval

Borrowed from Portuguese (lobo) cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus cervārius (literally “stag wolf”), i.e. "wolf that hunts stags", from cervus (“deer, stag”).


hippodrome

→ Turkish: hipodrom

Learned borrowing from Latin hippodromos, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “course”). By surface analysis, hippo- + -drome.

lbor

hippodrome, racecourse, circuit for equestrian sport


macaque

Haitian Creole: makak

→ Bulgarian: макак (makak)

→ English: macaque

→ German: Makake

→ Romanian: macac

Borrowed from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more).


tamarin

axilspot hogfish
axilspot hogfish#English

turncoat hogfish
turncoat hogfish#English

axilspot hogfish (Bodianus axillaris), coral pigfish, turncoat hogfish


raton

fr-noun

raton m (plural ratons, feminine ratonne)

The same as etymology 1, influenced by Spanish ratón.

Quel bavardage : liberté, égalité, fraternité, amour, honneur, patrie, que sais-je ? Cela ne nous empêchait pas de tenir en même temps des discours racistes, sale nègre, sale juif, sale raton.

1961, Jean-Paul Sartre, Préface des Les Damnés de la Terre (Frantz Fanon):

What gibberish: liberty, fairness, brotherhood, amity, honor, fatherland, what do I know? This doesn't stop us from holding at the same time racist discourses, foul black, foul jew, vile person of Arab or Algerian descent.

(derogatory, ethnic slur, vulgar) someone of Arab or Algerian descent


volaille

Inherited from Old French volille, volleille, from Late Latin volātilia, from Latin volātilis. Doublet of volatil.


briquet

→ English: briquet

→ Spanish: briquet

→ Romanian: brichetă

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Specialised sense of Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique.


suisse

From Suisse. The meaning "guard" is a metonymic reference to the practice of hiring Swiss mercenaries to serve as guards at European courts. The meaning "chipmunk" derives from the rodent's stripes, reminiscent of the striped uniform of the Swiss Guard.

Swiss (of, from or relating to Switzerland)


garrot

desctree

→ Spanish: garrote
→ San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: caroti

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.


cancanement

From cancaner (“to gossip; to quack”) + -ment.


morse

From Russian морж (morž), from Northern Sami.


chihuahua

Chihuahua / chihuahua (the dog breed or an individual of this breed)


talapoin

→ English: talapoin

Borrowed from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

talapoin (monkey in the genus Miopithecus)


lingue

Inherited from Middle French leynge, lingue, from Middle Dutch *lenge.


lapin

fr-noun

lapin m (plural lapins, feminine lapine)

Haitian Creole: lapen

Mauritian Creole: lapen

Seychellois Creole: lapen

→ Breton: lapin

→ English: lapin

→ Italian: lapin

→ Norman: lapin

→ Piedmontese: lapin

From Middle French lapin, alteration of lapereau, with change of suffix after connin, a word it replaced.


alouette

From Etymology 1, alluding to the French-Canadian folk song Alouette, a cumulative song with a lengthening list of body parts.

Neurologue, pneumologue, plusieurs cardiologues, oto-rhino-laryngologiste, rhumatologue, spécialiste des maladies infectieuses, alouette : son quotidien est rythmé par les examens avec les nombreux spécialistes qui la suivent.

2020, Philippe Mercure, “COVID-19 : quand la maladie s'éternise”, in La Presse:

Neurologist, pneumonologist, several cardiologists, ENT, rheumatologist, infectious disease specialist, and a partridge in a pear tree: the rhythm of her daily life is set by her appointments with the numerous specialists who are following her.

and a partridge in a pear tree
and a partridge in a pear tree

(usually humorous) Used at the end of a long list of items; and a partridge in a pear tree


mâtin

Inherited from Old French mastin, inherited from Vulgar Latin *māns(u)etīnus (“tamed (animal)”), from Classical Latin mānsuētus (“tamed”). Cognate to English mastiff.


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.

un jeune loup


aigle

Inherited from Middle French aigle, from Old French aigle, itself either borrowed from Old Occitan aigla or taken from Latin aquila, though not as a popular term. Cf. the Old French and regional form aille, which may be popularly inherited.
* Cognate with Italian aquila, Portuguese águia, Spanish águila. Doublet of eagle.

eagle (any of a number of species of birds of prey)


cigogne

Borrowed from Occitan cigonha, from Latin cicōnia. Replaced Old French soigne, ceoigne.


sanglier

Inherited from Old French sengler, from Vulgar Latin *singlāris, inherited from Latin singulāris (porcus) (literally “solitary pig”), with later substitution of the suffix -ier for -er. Compare Occitan singlar, Catalan senglar, Italian cinghiale, Friulian cenglâr. Doublet of singulier.

wild boar (specifically, a full-grown wild boar)


étourneau

From Old French esturnel, from Late Latin sturnellus, from Latin sturnus.


oie

Antillean Creole: zwa

Haitian Creole: zwa

Louisiana Creole: zwa

Mauritian Creole: zwa

Seychellois Creole: zwa

Inherited from Old French oie, from earlier oe, oue, from Vulgar Latin auca, contraction of *avica, from Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Italian, Spanish, and Catalan oca, Franco-Provençal ôye, Occitan and Romansch auca, Friulian ocje.
The Trésor de la langue française argues that -i- was added by the end of the 12th century as analogy to oisel, oiseau (“bird”).


étrier

→ English: étrier

→ Romanian: etrier

Inherited from Middle French estrier, from Old French estrief, estreu (“a ring hanging on each side of the saddle supporting a rider's foot”), from Frankish *streup (“buckle, stirrup”), perhaps for Frankish *stigareip (“stirrup”). Compare Old High German stegareif (“stirrup”), Middle Dutch stegerep (“stirrup”), Old English stīrāp, stiġrāp (“stirrup”), Old Norse stigreip (“stirrup”). See also étrivière. More at stirrup.


mistigri

From Old French miste ‘playful name for cat’ + gris 'grey'.


guêpier

From guêpe (“wasp”) + -ier. Compare Italian vespaio, Occitan vespièr, Portuguese vespeiro, Spanish avispero, Romanian viespar, Catalan vesper, Friulian gjespâr, Sardinian ghespàrju.


glouton

fr-noun

glouton m (plural gloutons, feminine gloutonne)

Inherited from Old French glouton, from Late Latin gluttōnem.

Le glouton est un animal solitaire.

glutton or wolverine, a mammalian carnivore of the Arctic regions resembling a small bear with a hairy tail


écureuil

Inherited from Middle French escureul, escuirel, escurel, from Old French escurel from Late Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Classical Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros).


vandoise

Borrowed from Gaulish *wind-ēsyā, from Proto-Celtic *windos (“white”) + a nominal suffix -ēsyā.


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!


coq

According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, the word would be borrowed in 1671, "at the time when Dutch navigation dominated", from Dutch kok, from Latin coquus. But the Dictionnaire du moyen français, referring to the attestations in 1354 and in 1491-1492, makes it a doublet of queux, directly from Latin coquus. See also feminine forms in Old French coquesse, coque.


chèvre

→ English: chèvre


cerf

Inherited from Middle French cerf, from Latin cervus.


jars

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


rorqual

→ Catalan: rorqual

Borrowed from Norwegian Nynorsk røyrkval (“furrow whale”), from Old Norse reyðarhvalr.


cochon

fr-adj

cochon (feminine cochonne, masculine plural cochons, feminine plural cochonnes)

cochonne (feminine)
cochons (masculine plural)
cochonnes (feminine plural)

Haitian Creole: kochon

Polish: amikoszoneria

Originally imitative of the noise a pig makes.

onomatopoeic

imitative


mouette

From Middle French mouette, from Old French moette, diminutive of Old French maoe (Anglo-Norman mave, mauve), from Old English mǣw (“seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maiwaz (“seagull”). Compare mauvis. More at mew.


destrier

From Old French destre (“right”) + -ier.


hippopotame

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: هیپوپوتام (hipopotam)
Turkish: hipopotam

desc

→ Tunisian Arabic: ليپوپوتام (lipuputēm)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos).


rhinocéros

Borrowed from Latin rhīnocerōs, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs).

rhinocéros laineux


éléphant

fr-noun

éléphant m (plural éléphants, feminine éléphante)

Haitian Creole: elefan

→ Romanian: elefant

Inherited from Middle French elephant, from Old French elefant, a borrowing from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας, ἐλέφαντος (eléphas, eléphantos). The commoner Old French form was olifan(t), whence the modern doublet olifant (“ivory horn”).

der

ἐλέφας, ἐλέφαντος

comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine


cygne

Inherited from Old French cisne, cine, from Late Latin cicinus, from Latin cycnus (“swan”), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos). The modern spelling is in imitation of the Latin variant form cygnus, and the modern pronunciation is a spelling-pronunciation based on that.


cabillaud

Inherited from Old French cabillau, from Middle Dutch cabeliau. Compare Modern Dutch kabeljauw, German Kabeljau.


loir

→ English: loir

Inherited from Old French loir, leir, lère, from Vulgar Latin *glirem, from Classical Latin glīrem. Compare Spanish lirón. Cf. also similar loss of initial Latin 'g-' in Old French luissel (from *globuscellum), lemoissel (from *glomiscellum).


échasse

Inherited from Middle French eschesse, from Old French eschace (“crutch, stilt”), from Frankish *skakkjā, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną.

(ornithology) One of a number of stilt birds, not always directly corresponding to English stilt


églefin

→ Catalan: eglefí

→ Italian: eglefino

→ Spanish: eglefino

?Translingual: Aeglefinus

Alteration of Middle French esclefin (probably after aigle), originally borrowed from Middle Dutch schelvisch, corresponding to schelp (“shell”) + vis (“fish”).


héron

Inherited from Middle French and Old French heron, of Germanic origin, from Old Frankish *herigo, *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô, *hraigrô. Compare Old High German heigaro.


tinamou

→ Catalan: tinamú

→ English: tinamou

→ Finnish: tinami

→ Italian: tinamo

→ Portuguese: tinamu

→ Romanian: tinamu

→ Russian: тинаму (tinamu)

→ Spanish: tinamú

Borrowed from Kari'na inamu (“great tinamou”).


lièvre

Inherited from Middle French lievre, from Old French lievre, from Latin leporem.


vider les arçons

(equestrianism) to dismount (to leave the saddle)


bateleur

fr-noun

bateleur m (plural bateleurs, feminine bateleuse)


jument

→ Catalan: jument

→ Franco-Provençal: jument

From Old French jument, from Latin iūmentum.


grive

→ Catalan: grive

Uncertain. Possibly from the feminine form of Old French grieu, griu, from Latin graecus (“Greek”), the thrush being a migratory bird that had hibernated in Greece.

Turdus migratorius
Turdus migratorius#Translingual


outarde

→ Italian: otarda

From Latin avis tarda ("slow bird"), contracted in *austarda.


assiette

→ English: assiette, ashet

→ German: Assiette

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: asjett

→ Piedmontese: assieta

→ Romanian: asietă

→ Swedish: assiett

→ Finnish: asetti

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *assedita, past participle of *assedere, from Latin assidēre.


carpe

From Late Latin carpa, probably from a language of eastern Europe.


maigre

Inherited from Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macrum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. The variant dialectal form maire is the normal phonetic result; the main form with -gr- was perhaps influenced by analogy with aigre, or may be semi-learned.


crapaud

→ English: crapaud

→ Guyanese Creole English: crappo

→ English: crappo

Inherited from Middle French crapaud, from Old French crapaut, crapot (“frog, toad”), from Frankish *krappō, *krappa (“hook, claw”) (because of a toad's hooked feet) + -aud. Compare Catalan gripau, Occitan grapaut. Displaced Old French froiz (“toad”), from Old Norse frauðr (“frog”).

la bave du crapaud n’atteint pas la blanche colombe


selle

Inherited from Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.


lézard

Louisiana Creole: lézard

→ Romanian: lezard

Inherited from Middle French lezart, from Old French lezart, lesard, laisarde, lajjsarde, from Latin lacertus. Compare English lizard.


loutre

→ Romanian: lutră

→ Turkish: lutr

Inherited from Old French lutre, from Latin lutra. In Old French, there were variants leurre (which is the normal phonetic result) and loirre (from a Vulgar Latin form *lutria, influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris); cf. Occitan luria, Catalan llúdria, Spanish lutria, nutria). The standard modern form loutre probably maintained the -t- due to influence from Frankish and Germanic (compare Dutch and English otter, German Otter).


fourmilier

From Italian formigaro. By surface analysis, fourmi (“ant”) + -ier.

surf

George Pouchet, Mémoires sur le Grand Fourmilier, Paris 1874, 68

It is known that the oral cavity of the anteaters, despite its extremely narrow orifice, reaches considerable extents.

On sait que la cavité buccale des Fourmiliers, malgré son orifice extrêmement étroit, atteint des dimensions considérables.

any of a number of different species of ant-eating birds


poussin

Inherited from Late Latin pullicēnus. Compare Italian pulcino.

(endearing) sweetheart, darling (used to address a young boy, or to address a man one is in a romantic relationship with)


chouette effraie

fr-noun

chouette effraie f (plural chouettes effraies)


hippocampe

Learned borrowing from Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”).


requin

→ English: requin

Haitian Creole: reken

→ Romanian: rechin

→ Polish: rekin

1539; Norman reflex of Old French reschin (12th c.), deverbal from reschignier (“to grimace while baring teeth”), rekigner (“to make an ugly face”), from Frankish *kīnan (“to split open”).

deverbal

Je suis un bébé requin / Au ventre blanc, aux dents nacrées / Dans les eaux chaudes, je t’entraînerai

1968, “Bébé requin”, in 1968, performed by France Gall:

I'm a baby shark / White-bellied, pearl-toothed / In warm waters I will drag you


aigrette

→ English: aigrette, aigret

From Old Occitan aigreta, diminutive of aigron (“heron”).

egret (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)


cachalot

→ English: cachalot

desctree

→ Polish: kaszalot
→ Kashubian: kaszalot

→ Romanian: cașalot

→ Russian: кашало́т (kašalót)
→ Armenian: կաշալոտ (kašalot)
→ Kazakh: кашалот (kaşalot)
→ Kyrgyz: кашалот (kaşalot)

Borrowed from Portuguese cachalote, from cachola (“big head”).


cote

Inherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.


colibri

→ Catalan: colibrí

→ Dutch: kolibrie

→ Greek: κολιμπρί (kolimprí)

Kashubian: kòliber

Polish: koliber

→ Portuguese: colibri

→ Romanian: colibri

→ Russian: коли́бри (kolíbri) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: colibrí


francolin

→ Catalan: francolí

→ Dutch: frankolijn

→ English: francolin


cabriole

→ Portuguese: cabriola

Borrowed from Italian capriola, initially as capriole, with a final -e to fit French norms.


chacal

→ Basque: txakal

→ Corsican: sciaccallu

→ Catalan: xacal

→ Danish: sjakal

→ Dutch: jakhals
Afrikaans: jakkals

→ English: jackal
→ Japanese: ジャッカル (jakkaru)
→ Korean: 자칼 (jakal)
→ Malay: jakal
Indonesian: jakal
→ Thai: แจ็กคัล (jɛ̀k-kal)

→ Faroese: sjakalur

→ Finnish: sakaali, šakaali, shakaali

→ German: Schakal
→ Belarusian: шакал (šakal)
→ Czech: šakal
→ Estonian: šaakal
→ Hungarian: sakál
→ Macedonian: шакал (šakal)
→ Russian: шакал (šakal)
→ Armenian: շակալ (šakal)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: шакал
Latin script: šakal
→ Slovak: šakal
→ Slovene: šakal
→ Swedish: schakal
→ Ukrainian: шакал (šakal)

→ Galician: chacal

→ Icelandic: sjakali

→ Irish: seacál

→ Italian: sciacallo

→ Latvian: šakālis

→ Lithuanian: šakalas

→ Norwegian: sjakal

→ Polish: szakal

→ Portuguese: chacal

→ Romanian: șacal

→ Spanish: chacal
→ Tagalog: tsakal

→ Volapük: jakal

→ Yiddish: שאַקאַל (shakal)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (modern Turkish çakal), from Persian شغال (šağâl), from Sanskrit सृगाल (sṛgālá, “jackal”).


skunks

→ Romanian: sconcs


inséparable

fr-noun

inséparable m or f by sense (plural inséparables)


saut de lapin

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bélier

From a change of suffix from Old French belin, probably ultimately of Dutch origin, cf. belhamel.


saumon

Haitian Creole: somon

→ Romanian: somon

→ Turkish: somon

From Latin salmō, potentially from Gaulish salmō.


chimpanzé

→? English: chimpanzee

→ Danish: chimpanse

desctree

→ Dutch: chimpansee
→ Indonesian: simpansé

→ Portuguese: chimpanzé

→ Spanish: chimpancé

Borrowed from an unspecified Bantu language.


dindon

fr-noun

dindon m (plural dindons, feminine dinde)


dinde

In the early period following the discovery of the Americas (i.e., the Indies), the French called turkeys coq d’Inde, poule d’Inde (literally “hen from India”), etc. D'Inde was ultimately spelled dinde by rebracketing.

(cooking) turkey meat (of a male or a female turkey)


coasser

coasser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
coassant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
coassé (participle past)
coasse (first-person indicative present singular)
coasses (indicative present second-person singular)
coasse (indicative present singular third-person)
coassons (first-person indicative plural present)
coassez (indicative plural present second-person)
coassent (indicative plural present third-person)
coassais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
coassais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
coassait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
coassions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
coassiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
coassaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
coassai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
coassas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
coassa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
coassâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
coassâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
coassèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
coasserai (first-person future indicative singular)
coasseras (future indicative second-person singular)
coassera (future indicative singular third-person)
coasserons (first-person future indicative plural)
coasserez (future indicative plural second-person)
coasseront (future indicative plural third-person)
coasserais (conditional first-person singular)
coasserais (conditional second-person singular)
coasserait (conditional singular third-person)
coasserions (conditional first-person plural)
coasseriez (conditional plural second-person)
coasseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
coasse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
coasses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
coasse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
coassions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
coassiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
coassent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
coassasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
coassasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
coassât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
coassassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
coassassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
coassassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
coasse (imperative second-person singular)
coassons (first-person imperative plural)
coassez (imperative plural second-person)


tricot

→ Catalan: tricot

→ Czech: triko

→ English: tricot

→ German: Trikot

→ Greek: τρίκο (tríko)

→ Italian: tricot

→ Ottoman Turkish: تریقو (triko)

→ Turkish: triko

→ Polish: trykot

→ Portuguese: tricô

→ Romanian: tricot

→ Spanish: tricot


civette

→ Portuguese: civeta

Borrowed from Italian zibetto, from Arabic زَبَاد (zabād).


joual

Pronunciation spelling of the joual pronunciation of cheval (“horse”) (/ʃəval/ → /ʒwal/).


baiji

Chinese river dolphin
Chinese river dolphin

baiji, Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)


minet

minet m (plural minets, feminine minette)

From min- (playful or endearing name for a cat) + -et. The first element is comparable to Provençal mino, as well as French minou, minon, minette, all of expressive origin.

onomatopoeic

expressive


oisillon

From Old French oisel, from Latin aucellus (“little bird”).

Au pied du hêtre, j’ai trouvé un oisillon qui est tombé de son nid.

At the foot of the beech tree I found a baby bird which had fallen from its nest.

young bird; chick, fledgling, baby bird, little bird


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.


mammifère

From Latin mamma (“breast, udder, pap, teat, dug”) + -fère, from fero.


amphibien

→ Romanian: amfibian


salamandre

→ Romanian: salamandră


antilope

→ Catalan: antílop

→ Dutch: antilope

→ German: Antilope

Greek: αντιλόπη (antilópi)

desctree

→ Russian: антило́па (antilópa)
→ Georgian: ანტილოპა (anṭiloṗa)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin antilops, itself borrowed from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops).


colombe

Inherited from Old French colombe, from Latin columba. Cf. also the masculine Old French form colomb, coulon.


colombe

Inherited from Old French colombe, from Latin columna via dissimilation. Doublet of colonne.


hareng

Inherited from Old French hareng, from Late Latin haringus, from Frankish *hāring.


morue

Haitian Creole: lanmori

From Old French morlue, derived from Latin morua (“cod”).


belle-de-nuit

(colloquial) marsh warbler, reed warbler


furet

→ Middle Dutch: furet, fret

Dutch: fret

→ German: Frett, Frettchen
→ Finnish: fretti

From Old French furet, furret, from Vulgar Latin *fūrittus (literally “little thief”) (compare Italian furetto), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”). See also Old French fuiron (“weasel, ferret”), from Vulgar Latin *fūriō, fūriōnem, from Late Latin fūrō (“cat; robber”) (compare Spanish hurón), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”).


phacochère

Borrowed from New Latin Phacochoerus, from Ancient Greek φακός (phakós, “lentil bean”) and χοῖρος (khoîros, “pig”).


chameau

fr-noun

chameau m (plural chameaux, feminine chamelle)

Inherited from Middle French chameau, from Old French chamel, inherited from Vulgar Latin *camellus, a variant of Classical Latin camēlus (which would have yielded *chamoil).


mangouste

→ Dutch: mangoeste

desctree

→ Russian: мангу́ст (mangúst), мангу́ста (mangústa)
→ Kazakh: мангуст (mañust)

→ Spanish: mangosta
→ Catalan: mangosta

Borrowed from Portuguese mangusto, from Marathi मुंगूस (muṅgūs).


vison

→ Catalan: visó

→ English: vison

→ Galician: visón

→ Greek: βιζόν n (vizón)

→ Italian: visone

→ Piedmontese: vison

→ Portuguese: visom

→ Spanish: visón

Inherited from Old French vison, of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from a Germanic source such as Frankish *wisulā (compare Old High German wisula (“weasel”). (An alternative suggestion that the term derives from Old High German wisunt (“bison”) is semantically implausible.)
Alternatively, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *viso, Latin visio (“to fart”), vissio (“stench”), in reference to their scent glands (near the anus).


blaireau

fr-noun

blaireau m (plural blaireaux, feminine blairelle)

Inherited from Middle French blereau, blariau, from Old French blarel, from blair.
* Possibly from Frankish *blari (“sporting a white blaze on the forehead”) (compare *blasā).
* Alternatively, from Gaulish *blaros, referring to the color gray, closely related to Proto-Celtic *blāwos (“yellow”).
* According to Bratchet, from a diminutive of blé (“corn, wheat”) thus meaning an animal that feeds on corn.
Replaced Old French taisson (“badger”).


cochon d'Inde

cochon d’ Inde (canonical masculine)
cochons d’Inde (plural)

/kɔ.ʃɔ̃ d‿ɛ̃d/

Cavia porcellus
Cavia porcellus#Translingual


lamantin

→ Armenian: լամանտին (lamantin)

→ Corsican: lamantinu

→ Dutch: lamantijn

→ English: lamantin

→ Italian: lamantino

→ Romanian: lamantin

→ Russian: ламанти́н (lamantín)

From lamenti, an alteration of Spanish manatí, a Cariban word, by association with lamenter (“lament, bewail”), because of the animal's cry.


ortolan

Borrowed from Italian ortolano, from Latin hortulānus (“gardener”). Doublet of hortelain, found in regional usage.


iguane

Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.


spatule

Borrowed from Late Latin spatula. Doublet of épaule, which was inherited.


lotte

Lophius piscatorius
Lophius piscatorius#Translingual

(cooking) the tail meat of an anglerfish (a marine fish, Lophius piscatorius)


avocette

→ English: avocet


marmotte

→ Catalan: marmota

desctree

→ Dutch: marmot
Afrikaans: marmot
→ Caribbean Javanese: marmut
→ Indonesian: marmot
→ Japanese: モルモット (morumotto, “guinea pig”)
→ Korean: 모르모트 (moreumoteu)
→ Papiamentu: marmòt

→ Italian: marmotta
→ Mòcheno: marmota

→ Japanese: マルモット (marumotto)

→ Kashubian: mërmòt

→ Korean: 마르모트 (mareumoteu)

→ Portuguese: marmota

→ Romanian: marmotă

→ Spanish: marmota


sterne

Of North Germanic origin, such as Danish terne or Swedish tärna, both from Old Norse þerna.


lori

→ Ottoman Turkish: لوری (lori, lory)
Turkish: lori


paon

un paon

Inherited from Old French paon, from Latin pāvōnem.


faucon

Inherited from Middle French faulcon, from Old French falcun (“falcon”), from Late Latin falcōnem, accusative form of falcō (“falcon”), probably of Germanic origin; possibly from Frankish *falkō (“falcon, hawk”), from Proto-Germanic *falkô (“falcon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pol̑- (“pale”), from *pel- (“fallow”). Cognate with Old English *fealca, fealcen (“falcon”). More at falcon.


maquereau

Inherited from Middle French macquereau, maquereau, maquerel, from Old French maquerel, of uncertain origin.


chevêche

Perhaps from a suffixed form of cavannus.

Athene noctua
Athene noctua#Translingual


chien de poche

fr-noun

chien de poche m (plural chiens de poche)

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(Quebec) someone whose behaviour reminds of such a dog


pinson

pinson m (plural pinsons, feminine pinsonne)

From Vulgar Latin *pincio (acc. *pincionem) from Gaulish (compare Welsh pinc), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pingos (compare English finch). Compare Spanish pinzón, Italian pincione.


bovin

fr-adj

bovin (feminine bovine, masculine plural bovins, feminine plural bovines)

bovine (feminine)
bovins (masculine plural)
bovines (feminine plural)


pingouin

→ Danish: pingvin

→ Italian: pinguino

→ Persian: پنگوئن (pangu'an)

→ Portuguese: pinguim

→ Romanian: pinguin

→ Spanish: pingüino

→ Swedish: pingvin

→ Turkish: penguen


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”).


minou

Louisiana Creole: minou

Son seul côté casse-couilles c’était s’il te plaît Minou va me chercher des bonbons chez l’épicier. Cinq étages, à pied. Vernon n’était pas partant pour être un Minou serviable.

2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 22:


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)


cigogne blanche

cigogne blanche f (plural cigognes blanches)

Ciconia ciconia
Ciconia ciconia#Translingual

white stork (large wading bird, Ciconia ciconia)


messager serpentaire

messager serpentaire m (plural messagers serpentaires)


verrat

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


babouin

Inherited from Middle French babouyne, baboin, from Old French babouin, from baboue (“grimace; muzzle”), of Germanic origin, related to dialectal German Bäppe (“lips; muzzle”), Middle High German beffen (“to bark”), Middle English baffen (“to bark”). See also baff, baffle.


dinosaure

English dinosaur. Coined by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1842.


hirondelle

Borrowed from Old Occitan irondela, diminutive of irunda, ironda, ultimately from Latin hirundō. Replaced Old French arondelle, diminutive of aronde, from Latin hirundō (compare also harundō).

(printing) alignment mark printed in the margin


chien de garde

chien de garde m (plural chiens de garde)

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messager sagittaire

messager sagittaire m (plural messagers sagittaires)


messager secrétaire

messager secrétaire m (plural messagers secrétaires)


homme de Néandertal

homme de Néandertal m (plural hommes de Néandertal)

Homo neanderthalensis
Homo neanderthalensis#Translingual

Neanderthal (A Homo neanderthalensis specimen)


zébreau

zébreau m (plural zébreaux, feminine zébrelle)


zébrâne

zeedonk (cross between a zebra and a donkey)


éléphanteau

éléphanteau m (plural éléphanteaux, feminine éléphantelle)

éléphanteaux (plural)
éléphantelle (feminine)


zébrule

Jeanne Friboulet, "La triste vérité sur les animaux hybrides", GEO, 26th June 2015.
Qu’est-ce qu’un zébrule ? Un croisement entre un zèbre et une jument.

What is a zorse? A cross between a male zebra and a mare.

zorse (cross between a male zebra and a female horse)


corneille

Inherited from Latin cornīcula (“small crow”), diminutive of cornīx. Compare Spanish corneja.


corbeau

fr-noun

corbeau m (plural corbeaux, feminine corbelle)

→ English: corbeau

Inherited from Middle French corbeau m, from Old French corbel m, itself either a diminutive of corp m (“raven”), or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus m, from Latin corvus m (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus m).

(historical) corvus (grappling hook used by the Romans in naval warfare)


chauve-souris

Used as early as the 8th century in Gallic Late Latin calva sōrex (“bald mouse”); the first element ("bald") may originally be an alteration of Vulgar Latin *cawa (“crow, tawny owl”). Equivalent to chauve (“bald”) + souris (“mouse”).

(heraldry) a charge depicting the animal of the same name


requin-marteau

requin-marteau m (plural requins-marteaux)


requin marteau

requin marteau m (plural requins marteaux)


tourterelle

Inherited from Old French turterele, turtrele, from Late Latin turturella or Latin turturilla, a diminutive of turtur (“turtle dove”). Compare Italian tortorella, Romanian turturea. Cf. also tourte / tourtre.


coucou

→ Persian: کوکو (kuku)

Inherited from Old French cucu; onomatopoeic derivative of the call of the cuckoo (bird), coucou, or from Latin cuculus.

(informal) old plane; old crate; rust bucket; any old vehicle, especially one that is rickety


canette

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


perdrix

Inherited from Old French perdriz, from Latin perdīcem, from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix).


casse-noix

From casse (“breaks”, third-person singular present indicative of casser (“to break”)) + noix (“nut”), literally “[that which] breaks nut”.

compound

third-person singular present indicative of <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">casser</i> (“to break”)

Alternative spelling of cassenoix (“nutcracker (bird of the genus Nucifraga)”)


butor

→ Catalan: butor

From Vulgar Latin *butitaurus, from Latin būtiō (“bittern”) + taurus (“bull”), apparently because of its call.


dragon de Komodo

fr-noun

dragon de Komodo m (plural dragons de Komodo)


renard polaire

renard polaire m (plural renards polaires)


baleine bleue

baleine bleue f (plural baleines bleues)

From baleine (“a whale”) and bleue the feminine form of the adjective bleu (“blue”).


tatou

→ Breton: tatou

→ English: tatou

→ Hungarian: tatu

→ Romanian: tatu


orque

Borrowed from English orc. Doublet of ogre.


manchot de Humboldt

manchot de Humboldt m (plural manchots de Humboldt)


manchot Adélie

manchot Adélie m (plural manchots Adélie)


manchot de Magellan

manchot de Magellan m (plural manchots de Magellan)


manchot papou

manchot papou m (plural manchots papous)


manchot des Galapagos

manchot des Galapagos m (plural manchots des Galapagos)


manchot antipode

manchot antipode m (plural manchots antipodes)


manchot à jugulaire

manchot à jugulaire m (plural manchots à jugulaire)


manchot à ailerons blancs

manchot à ailerons blancs m (plural manchots à ailerons blancs)

white-flippered penguin
white-flippered penguin


manchot empereur

manchot empereur m (plural manchots empereurs)

Aptenodytes forsteri
Aptenodytes forsteri#Translingual


manchot royal

manchot royal m (plural manchots royaux)

Aptenodytes patagonicus
Aptenodytes patagonicus#Translingual


manchot du Cap

manchot du Cap m (plural manchots du Cap)


manchot pygmée

manchot pygmée m (plural manchots pygmées)


gorfou

Alteration of Faroese geirfuglur (“great auk”).


mammouth

→ German: Mammut
→ Hungarian: mamut

→ Portuguese: mamute

→ Spanish: mamut

→ Persian: ماموت (mâmut)

→ Italian: mammut

→ Romanian: mamut

→ Turkish: mamut

→ Vietnamese: ma mút

Borrowed from Russian ма́монт (mámont), from Uralic.


œuf à la coque

œuf à la coque m (plural œufs à la coque)


gorfou des Snares

gorfou des Snares m (plural gorfous des Snares)


gorfou du Fiordland

gorfou du Fiordland m (plural gorfous du Fiordland)


chiot

19th cent.; alternative spelling (from reanalysis as chien + -ot) of Middle French chiau (1515), from Old French chael, from Latin catellus.

white-coated harp seal pup (Pagophilus groenlandicus)


canari

Borrowed from Spanish canario (“canary, resident or native of the Canary Islands”).


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).


gorge-bleue à miroir

gorge-bleue à miroir f (plural gorge-bleues à miroir)


ablette

Alburnus alburnus
Alburnus alburnus#Translingual


espadon

→ English: espadon

Haitian Creole: espandon


dronte

→ Dutch: dronte

→ English: dronte

→ Portuguese: dronte


léopard

Panthera pardus
Panthera pardus#Translingual

leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, Panthera pardus)


hyène

From Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina).


gorille

→ Romanian: gorilă

→ Persian: گوریل (goril)

Learned borrowing from New Latin Gorilla, from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai).

lbor

gorilla (largest of the apes, belonging to the genus Gorilla, native to the forests of central Africa and known for their trait of knuckle-walking)


agace

Inherited from Middle French agace, from Old French agace (“magpie”), from Frankish *agattjā or Old High German agaza (“magpie”), ultimately perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare Walloon agaesse, Occitan agaça, gacha, Italian gazza, and possibly Catalan garsa.


ouaille

Inherited from Old French oaille, from earlier oeille (with the ending subsequently matched to the suffix -aille), from Latin ovicula, diminutive of ovis, from Proto-Italic *owis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis.

(in the plural) flock (of sheep, or the people looked after by a Christian pastor)


martre

→ Italian: martora

From Frankish *marþra (“marten”), from Proto-Germanic *marþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *martus (“bride”). X. Delamarre (2003) in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise proposes a connection to Gaulish martalos via a "crossed-etymology".


martin-pêcheur

fr-noun

martin-pêcheur m (plural martins-pêcheurs)

kingfisher (any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines)


ourson

ourson m (plural oursons, feminine oursonne)


tortue

Haitian Creole: tòti

Inherited from Middle French tortue, borrowed from Old Occitan tortuga, tartuga, from Late Latin tartarūcha, feminine form of tartarūchus, a mythological spirit of Greek origin, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “resident or native of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Cf. also Medieval Latin tortuca. Compare Spanish tortuga, Italian tartaruga.


ragondin

/ʁa.ɡɔ̃.dɛ̃/


pachyderme

From Ancient Greek παχύδερμος (pakhúdermos).


chamelle

fr-noun

chamelle f (plural chamelles, masculine chameau)


béluga

Borrowed from Russian белу́га (belúga), from бе́лый (bélyj, “white”).


ornithorynque

→ Persian:

Iranian Persian: ارنیترنگ (ornitorang)

From the genus name Ornithorhynchus, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) + ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos, “snout”).


merlan

Earlier merle, borrowed from Latin merula.


guépard

→ Catalan: guepard

→ English: guepard

→ Russian: гепа́рд (gepárd)

From an alteration, likely via Medieval Latin, of Italian gattopardo (“serval”).


zébu

zébu m (plural zébus, feminine zébue or zébute)

zébus (plural)
zébue (feminine)
zébute (feminine)

→ English: zebu

→ Portuguese: zebu

Probably from Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male offspring of a female cow and yak bull”), from Classical Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, from མཛོ (mdzo, “cow and yak hybrid”) + པོ (po, “suffix for males”)); or, from a similar Tibeto-Burman source, such as Tibetan ཟེ་བ (ze ba, “zebu or camel's hump”).


vipère

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French vipre, directly borrowed from Latin vīpera. Displaced an earlier Old French doublet guivre (cf. also French vouivre) and its Old Northern French equivalent wivre.


vautour

Inherited from Old French voltur, voutour, from Classical Latin vulturem. Compare Old Italian avvoltore, Catalan and Occitan voltor.


cétacé

From New Latin cētācea, from Latin cētus (“whale”).


cétacé

fr-adj

cétacé (feminine cétacée, masculine plural cétacés, feminine plural cétacées)

cétacée (feminine)
cétacés (masculine plural)
cétacées (feminine plural)


passereau

Inherited from Old French passerel, from Latin passer + French suffix -eau. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro- (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).


bouquetin

1240; from Old French boc estaign, metathesis of Judeo-French estainbouc, from Old High German steinbok. Not a diminutive formed from bouquet + -in.


dromadaire

From Old French dromedaire, from Late Latin dromedārius (“kind of camel”), from Classical Latin dromas, from Ancient Greek δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos, “running camel”), from δρόμος (drómos, “race course”).

der

δρομὰς κάμηλος


crotale

Borrowed from Latin crotalum, from Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon).


épervier

Inherited from Middle French esprevier, which see.
Cognate with Old High German sparwari (whence German Sperber), Middle Dutch sperware (whence Dutch sperwer), Middle Low German sperwere, all meaning “sparrow hawk”. Compare also Italian sparviere and English sparrow hawk.


épervier

fr-adj

épervier (feminine épervière, masculine plural éperviers, feminine plural épervières)

épervière (feminine)
éperviers (masculine plural)
épervières (feminine plural)


castagnole

Borrowed from Occitan castanhòla, diminutive of castanha (“chestnut”).


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.


gardon

Probably derived from the verb garder (“to keep, monitor, guard”), referring to the tendency of the fish to return to places from which it was chased, or its bright red eyes.


lamproie

From Old French lamproie, from Medieval Latin lamprēda, of uncertain origin: possibly from Late Latin lampetra, from a combination of lambō (“lick”) + petra (“stone”). Compare Spanish lamprea, Italian lampreda, Portuguese lampreia. However, see also Gaulish naupreda; naupreda is attested in the 5th century via Polemius Silvius.


grand requin blanc

fr-noun

grand requin blanc m (plural grands requins blancs)

/ɡʁɑ̃ ʁ(ə).kɛ̃ blɑ̃/

Carcharodon carcharias
Carcharodon carcharias#Translingual

great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)


cobaye

(figuratively) guinea pig (a living experimental subject)


gobemouche

From gober (“to swallow whole”) and mouche (“fly”).


silure glane

Silurus glanis
Silurus glanis#Translingual


ramier

→ English: ramier


mastodonte

Created in 1806 by Georges Cuvier from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós, “breast”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”)

mastodon (extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus Mammut)


éperon

Inherited from Old French esperon (also Middle French), from Frankish *spurō (compare German Sporn).

(equestrianism) spur (for riding or on a cockerel)


haie

→ English: hey

Inherited from Middle French haye, from Old French haie, from Medieval Latin haga, from Frankish *haggju (whence English hedge) and/or related *hagō (whence English haw). Doublet of age and quai.


piaffer

piaffer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
piaffant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
piaffé (participle past)
piaffe (first-person indicative present singular)
piaffes (indicative present second-person singular)
piaffe (indicative present singular third-person)
piaffons (first-person indicative plural present)
piaffez (indicative plural present second-person)
piaffent (indicative plural present third-person)
piaffais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
piaffais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
piaffait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
piaffions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
piaffiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
piaffaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
piaffai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
piaffas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
piaffa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
piaffâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
piaffâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
piaffèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
piafferai (first-person future indicative singular)
piafferas (future indicative second-person singular)
piaffera (future indicative singular third-person)
piafferons (first-person future indicative plural)
piafferez (future indicative plural second-person)
piafferont (future indicative plural third-person)
piafferais (conditional first-person singular)
piafferais (conditional second-person singular)
piafferait (conditional singular third-person)
piafferions (conditional first-person plural)
piafferiez (conditional plural second-person)
piafferaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
piaffe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
piaffes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
piaffe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
piaffions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
piaffiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
piaffent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
piaffasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
piaffasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
piaffât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
piaffassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
piaffassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
piaffassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
piaffe (imperative second-person singular)
piaffons (first-person imperative plural)
piaffez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Italian: piaffare


rouge-gorge

(Canada) American robin (Turdus migratorius)


matou

Louisiana Creole: matou

Perhaps from the Germanic personal name Marcou, Markolf (see Marcoux), or from a derivation of maître (“master”), or possibly imitative and akin to Proto-Slavic *maca (“pussycat”).

onomatopoeic

imitative


sarcelle

On va aller en boîte trouver de la meuf, choper de la sarcelle à talon.

2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:

We're going to a club to find some birds, get ourselves a bit of skirt.


brème

→ Portuguese: brema

Inherited from Old French braisme, from Frankish *brahsima (compare Dutch brasem), from West Germanic *brahsmō, from Proto-Germanic *brahsmǭ, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see English braid (verb)).

der

(ichthyology) bream (fish of the genus Abramis)


muge

Borrowed from Occitan muge, from Vulgar Latin *mūgō (cf. Italian muggine), a noun based on Latin mūgil (“mullet”).


caméléon

Learned borrowing from Latin chamaeleōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek χᾰμαιλέων (khamailéōn).

(figuratively) chameleon (person who always changes)


torpille

→ Greek: τορπίλη (torpíli)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: طورپیل (torpil)
Turkish: torpil
→ Armenian: թօռփիլ (tʻōṙpʻil), թօռփին (tʻōṙpʻin)

From obsolete torpin with change of suffix.


huppe

From Latin upupa, via the syncopated Vulgar Latin ūppa.

C’est un assez grand oiseau, de 45 cent. de long, au plumage blanc éclatant. La huppe, les plumes qui recouvrent les oreilles, le milieu du ventre, les ailes et la partie radicale de la face interne des pennes caudales sont jaunes de soufre pâle ; le bec est noir ; les pattes sont d’un brun grisâtre.

1873, A. E. Brehm, “Le cacatoës à huppe jaune [The sulphur-crested cockatoo]”, in La vie des animaux:

It is a fairly large bird, 45 cm. in length, with sparkling white plumage. The crest, the ear coverts, the centre of the belly, the wings and the base of the underside of the tail feathers are pale sulphur-yellow; the beak is black; the feet are greyish-brown.

(zoology) crest (tuft growing on an animal's head)


rossignol

From Old Occitan rossinhol (cf. Catalan rossinyol), from Vulgar Latin *lusciniolus, masculine diminutive of Latin luscinia (“nightingale”). According to de Vaan, "might be explained with haplology from *lusci-cania (“'singing in the night', 'blind singer'”)", but this is conjecture.


musaraigne

From Middle French mesiraigne (16th c.), merisengne (15th c.), from Latin mūsarāneus, from Latin mūs (“mouse”) + arāneus (“spider-like”). So called because the bite of many shrews (e.g. Neomys fodiens) is venomous. According to the Trésor informatisé, the word is a borrowing from Latin, but the Middle French forms look by no means learned and could well be inherited. The modern -u- may be a Latinate alteration, however.


pivert

Picus viridis
Picus viridis#Translingual


belette

→ Corsican: bellula, beddula (calque)

From Old French belette. Derivable from belle (“pretty”) + -ette (diminutive ending). Compare Franco-Provençal belèta.


panser

panser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pansant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
pansé (participle past)
panse (first-person indicative present singular)
panses (indicative present second-person singular)
panse (indicative present singular third-person)
pansons (first-person indicative plural present)
pansez (indicative plural present second-person)
pansent (indicative plural present third-person)
pansais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pansais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pansait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pansions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pansiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pansaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pansai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
pansas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
pansa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
pansâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
pansâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
pansèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
panserai (first-person future indicative singular)
panseras (future indicative second-person singular)
pansera (future indicative singular third-person)
panserons (first-person future indicative plural)
panserez (future indicative plural second-person)
panseront (future indicative plural third-person)
panserais (conditional first-person singular)
panserais (conditional second-person singular)
panserait (conditional singular third-person)
panserions (conditional first-person plural)
panseriez (conditional plural second-person)
panseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
panse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
panses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
panse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pansions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pansiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
pansent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
pansasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pansasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pansât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pansassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pansassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pansassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
panse (imperative second-person singular)
pansons (first-person imperative plural)
pansez (imperative plural second-person)


pélican

→ Persian: پلیکان (pelikân)

pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)


elbot

(Belgium) halibut (fish of genus Hippoglossus)


râle

→ Dutch: ral

→ English: rale


chevaucher

chevaucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
chevauchant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
chevauché (participle past)
chevauche (first-person indicative present singular)
chevauches (indicative present second-person singular)
chevauche (indicative present singular third-person)
chevauchons (first-person indicative plural present)
chevauchez (indicative plural present second-person)
chevauchent (indicative plural present third-person)
chevauchais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
chevauchais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
chevauchait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
chevauchions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
chevauchiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
chevauchaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
chevauchai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
chevauchas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
chevaucha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
chevauchâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
chevauchâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
chevauchèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
chevaucherai (first-person future indicative singular)
chevaucheras (future indicative second-person singular)
chevauchera (future indicative singular third-person)
chevaucherons (first-person future indicative plural)
chevaucherez (future indicative plural second-person)
chevaucheront (future indicative plural third-person)
chevaucherais (conditional first-person singular)
chevaucherais (conditional second-person singular)
chevaucherait (conditional singular third-person)
chevaucherions (conditional first-person plural)
chevaucheriez (conditional plural second-person)
chevaucheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
chevauche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
chevauches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
chevauche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
chevauchions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
chevauchiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
chevauchent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
chevauchasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
chevauchasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
chevauchât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
chevauchassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
chevauchassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
chevauchassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
chevauche (imperative second-person singular)
chevauchons (first-person imperative plural)
chevauchez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French chevauchier, from Old French chevauchier, from Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus (“nag, jade”).

inh+

to ride on horseback, usually for the purpose of raiding and pillaging


crécerelle

From Middle French cresserelle, crecerelle (“bird of prey”), usually assumed to be from crecelle (“rattle, wooden reel”) (modern crécelle), of obscure origin.
Cognates possibly include: Medieval Latin clisterella f, English kestrel, Neapolitan castariello m and crestariello m, all sharing the same meaning.
Derivation from the assumed *Vulgar Latin crepicella, *crepitacillum, a diminutive of crepitāculum, from crepitāre (“to crackle”) is difficult to explain from a morphological point of view. Instead, possibly from a root *krek-, *krak- (“to crack, rattle, creak, emit a bird cry”), possibly from or related to Middle Dutch crāken (“to creak, crack”), from Old Dutch *krakōn (“to crack, creak, emit a cry”), from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to emit a cry, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“to shout”). Cognate with Old High German krahhōn (“to make a sound, crash”), Old English cracian (“to resound”), Middle French craquer (used of birds, “to emit a repeated cry”).


marsouin

→ Catalan: marsuí

→ Romanian: marsuin

Occurring in a 1086 Medieval Latin translation of the Domesday Book, from Old English mereswīn (“porpoise”), but probably reborrowed from another Germanic source cognate to the Old English word, from Old Frankish *mariswīn, Middle Dutch meerswijn, or Old Norse marsvín (“dolphin”), all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mariswīną (“dolphin, porpoise”). More at English mereswine. Cf. also the Old French porpeis.


souffleur

fr-noun

souffleur m (plural souffleurs, feminine souffleuse)

souffleurs (plural)
souffleuse (feminine)

→ Czech: suflér

→ Dutch: souffleur

→ Polish: sufler

→ Romanian: sufleor

→ Russian: суфлёр (sufljór)

→ Turkish: suflör

blower (animal which blows out air through its blowhole)


greffier

greffier m (plural greffiers, feminine greffière)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin graphiārius (“scribe, secretary”), from graphium (“stylus”). Compare greffe (“clerk's office”).


gambette

From Picard gambette (“little leg”), see gambe.


anchois

→ Bulgarian: аншоа́ (anšoá)

→ Luxembourgish: Anchois

→ Polish: anchois

→ Romanian: anșoa

→ Turkish: ançüez

Inherited from Old French [Term?], from Old Occitan anchoia (modern Occitan anchòia), from Ligurian anciôa, from Vulgar Latin *apiuva, from Latin aphyē (“small fry”), from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē).


daim

Inherited from Late Latin dāmus, from Latin damma (“fallow deer, buck, doe”).


truite arc-en-ciel

fr-noun

truite arc-en-ciel f (plural truites arc-en-ciel)

Oncorhynchus mykiss
Oncorhynchus mykiss#Translingual

Salmo gairdneri
Salmo gairdneri#Translingual

rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss syn. Salmo gairdneri)


moineau

Inherited from Old French moinel, equivalent to moine (because of its plumage) + -eau.

(fortifications) (type of) small bastion


tassergal

Borrowed from Tashelhit ⵜⴰⵙⵔⴳⴰⵍⵜ (tasrgalt, “bluefish”).


hippique

From Ancient Greek ἱππικός (hippikós), compare ἵππος (híppos) and -ique.


oiseau de proie

fr-noun

oiseau de proie m (plural oiseaux de proie)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-oiseau de proie.wav


fauconnerie

From faucon + -erie, or from Medieval Latin falconaria.


palefroi

Inherited from Old French palefreid, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin palefredus, variant of Late Latin paraveredus.


fer à cheval

horseshoe whip snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis)

horseshoe bat (the monotypic family Rhinolophidae)

horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis gen. and spp.)


mulet

Inherited from Old French mulet, from Latin mullus, from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).


bichon

bichon m (plural bichons, feminine bichonne)

Inherited from Middle French bichon (“small long-haired dog”), from Old French biche (“bitch, female dog”), from Old English biċċe (“female dog”), from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (“female dog, bitch”). Cognate with Old Norse bikkja (“female dog”), German Betze (“female dog”).
Alternative etymology derives through clipping of barbichon (“small poodle”), a diminutive of barbiche (“shaggy dog”), however, chronology makes this derivation improbable if not impossible, as bichon is attested since 1588, yet barbichon does not appear until 1694.


chien d'eau

chien d’ eau (canonical masculine)
chiens d’eau (plural)


chien d'eau portugais

fr-noun

chien d’eau portugais m (plural chiens d’eau portugais)

chien d’eau portugais (canonical masculine)
chiens d’eau portugais (plural)

Portuguese Water Dog
Portuguese Water Dog


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)


buse

Inherited from Old French buison, buson, from Latin būteōnem.


goéland

goéland m (plural goélands, feminine goélande)


hermine

→ Romanian: hermină

→ Turkish: ermin

Inherited from Middle French hermin, ermin, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine (“ermine”), from either Medieval Latin (mus) Armenius (“Armenian (mouse)”) (see Armenia) or Frankish *harmīn (“ermine”, adjective) (from *harmō (“ermine”)). More at ermine.

Mustela erminea
Mustela erminea#Translingual


bichon à poil frisé

bichon à poil frisé m (plural bichons à poil frisé)


poulain

Inherited from Old French poulain, polain (“baby animal”), from a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin pullāmen, from Latin pullus (“animal young”).

Il affirma que Kadyrov est un poulain de Poutine.
He stated that Kadyrov is Putin's protégé.


poisson rouge

poisson rouge m (plural poissons rouges)


cacatoès

From Portuguese cacatua, from Malay kakaktua.


suricate

From earlier surikate, from a South African language.


rouget

→ English: rouget

Inherited from Middle French rouget, from Old French rouget, roget. By surface analysis, rouge + -et.


dalmatien

fr-adj

dalmatien (feminine dalmatienne, masculine plural dalmatiens, feminine plural dalmatiennes)

dalmatienne (feminine)
dalmatiens (masculine plural)
dalmatiennes (feminine plural)


berger allemand

fr-noun

berger allemand m (plural bergers allemands, feminine bergère allemande)

bergers allemands (plural)
bergère allemande (feminine)

D’après nos voisins, de gros racistes, je l’précise / Nous étions mal élevés et leur berger allemand mieux dressé

2005, “Thé à la menthe”, performed by La Caution:

According to our neighbours, massive racists, might I add / We were badly brought up and their German shepherd was better behaved than us

German shepherd (large-sized breed of dog often used as a guard dog or police dog)


macareux

Perhaps an alteration of macreuse, with change of suffix.


cormoran

/kɔʁ.mɔ.ʁɑ̃/

From Old French cormoran, from Medieval Latin corvus marīnus (literally “sea-raven”)


caniche

fr-noun

caniche m or f by sense (plural caniches)

→ Basque: kanixe

→ Portuguese: caniche

→ Romanian: caniș

→ Spanish: caniche

→ Turkish: kaniş


lynx roux

bobcat (a North American wild cat, Lynx rufus)


léopard de mer

léopard de mer m (plural léopards de mer)

Hydrurga leptonyx
Hydrurga leptonyx#Translingual


orvet

Uncertain; probably from Old French orb (“blind”).


ophio-

From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”).


jaseur

fr-adj

jaseur (feminine jaseuse, masculine plural jaseurs, feminine plural jaseuses)

jaseuse (feminine)
jaseurs (masculine plural)
jaseuses (feminine plural)


tourte

Ultimately from Latin turtur (“turtle, turtle dove, turtledove”). Compare tourterelle.

inh

Ectopistes migratorius
Ectopistes migratorius#Translingual

(Quebec) passenger pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius


échassier

any of a number of wading birds. (Note that this does not always directly correspond to English wading bird.)


birman

fr-noun

birman m (countable and uncountable, plural birmans)


carrelet

(fishing) (type of) fishing net; lift net


vigogne

→ English: vigogne

→? Italian: vigogna

→ Polish: wigoń

→ Portuguese: vigonho

Borrowed from Spanish vicuña, from Quechua wik'uña.


rainette

→ Portuguese: raineta


abeiller

fr-adj

abeiller (feminine abeillère, masculine plural abeillers, feminine plural abeillères)

abeillère (feminine)
abeillers (masculine plural)
abeillères (feminine plural)

(uncommon) Relative to bees and their keeping


aiglon

fr-noun

aiglon m (plural aiglons, feminine aiglonne)


souriceau

souriceau m (plural souriceaux, feminine souricelle)

souriceaux (plural)
souricelle (feminine)


baleineau

baleineau m (plural baleineaux, feminine baleinelle)

baleineaux (plural)
baleinelle (feminine)

Mais auprès de la baleine de monsieur le professeur, la mienne n’était qu’un baleineau.

1871, Jules Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, page 326:

But next to the professor's whale, mine was only a baby.


renardeau

From renard (“fox”) + -eau (diminutive suffix).


louveteau

louveteau m (plural louveteaux, feminine louvetelle)

louveteaux (plural)
louvetelle (feminine)


colin

Several different fish: pollock or European pollock, saithe or coalfish, hake


geai

From Old French jai (“jaybird, magpie”), from Late Latin gaius (“jaybird”), which see for more. The modern spelling with ge- is influenced by the Latin etymon.


tireur

tireur m (plural tireurs, feminine tireuse)


chat-huant

Alteration (after chat, huant) of Zarphatic Old French javan (“owl”), from Old French choan, from Late Latin cavannus, from Transalpine Gaulish.


bétail

Inherited from Old French bestail, bestaille, from beste (“animal”) + -ail.


chevaine

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

chub (Leuciscus cephalus, now Squalius cephalus)


loriot

Earlier loriol, by rebracketing from Old French oriol, from Old Occitan auriol, from Latin aureolus (“golden”).


poulaille

Inherited from Old French polaille, poulaille. By surface analysis, poule + -aille.


chameau de Bactriane

chameau de Bactriane m (plural chameaux de Bactriane)

Camelus bactrianus
Camelus bactrianus#Translingual


couleuvre

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cobra, a borrowing from Portuguese.


poisson volant

poisson volant m (plural poissons volants)


huîtrier

fr-adj

huîtrier (feminine huîtrière, masculine plural huîtriers, feminine plural huîtrières)

huîtrière (feminine)
huîtriers (masculine plural)
huîtrières (feminine plural)


barbeau

Inherited from Old French barbel (“barbel fish”), from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus (“a type of fish”).


équin

fr-adj

équin (feminine équine, masculine plural équins, feminine plural équines)

équine (feminine)
équins (masculine plural)
équines (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“horse”).


molosse

Borrowed from Latin molossus, short for molossus canis (literally “Molossus dog”), from Ancient Greek Μολοσσός (Molossós, “of Molossus (an area known for its guard-dogs)”).


mulot

Inherited from Old French mulot, diminutive of mul, from Old Dutch muli (“moles”) (Reichenau Glosses, 8th cent.) (compare Dutch mol).


fauvette

1976, Michel Fugain et le Big Bazar, "Le printemps".
L’hirondelle et la fauvette, c’est la forêt qui me l’a dit / L’hirondelle et la fauvette, ont déjà fait leur nid

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Médor

(1516) From Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.

Fido, Rex, Rover; a name stereotypically given to dogs.


pourceau

Inherited from Old French pourcel, purcel, from Late Latin porcellus, diminutive of Latin porcus.

jeter des perles aux pourceaux


vulpin

fr-adj

vulpin (feminine vulpine, masculine plural vulpins, feminine plural vulpines)

vulpine (feminine)
vulpins (masculine plural)
vulpines (feminine plural)


surmulot

Rattus norvegicus
Rattus norvegicus#Translingual


capucin

Borrowed from Italian cappuccino, ultimately from Late Latin cappa (“cape, hood”).


taïpan du désert

fr-noun

taïpan du désert m (plural taïpans du désert)


bongare fascié

bongare fascié m (plural bongares fasciés)


vipère de la mort

vipère de la mort f (plural vipères de la mort)


serpent corail

serpent corail m (plural serpents corails)


bongare indien

bongare indien m (plural bongares indiens)


lagomorphe

lagomorph (animal of the order Lagomorpha)


putois

Mustela putorius
Mustela putorius#Translingual

polecat (especially, the European polecat, Mustela putorius)


scandentien

treeshrew, tree shrew (animal of the order Scandentia)


proboscidien

proboscidean (animal of the order Proboscidea)


macroscélidé

elephant shrew (animal of the order Macroscelidea)