vase

From Middle French, from Middle Dutch wase (“mud, silt, wet ground, clod of dirt, grass”), from *Old Dutch waso, from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture, ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, wet”). More at ouze.


vase

→ Danish: vase

→ German: Vase (see there for further descendants)

→ Hungarian: váza

→ Hunsrik: Vaas

→ Luxembourgish: Vas

→ Norwegian: vase

→ Romanian: vază

→ Russian: ваза (vaza) (see there for further descendants)

→ Swedish: vas

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin vās.

la goutte d'eau qui fait déborder le vase


malle

→ Portuguese: mala

Inherited from Middle French malle, from Old French male (“leather bag, leather or wooden travel-case”), from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“leather bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *molko- (“leather bag”). Cognate with Old High German malha, malaha (“leather bag”), Middle Dutch male (“trunk, travel bag”). More at mail.

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Sors tes habits de la malle et range-les dans l'armoire !

Take your clothes out of the suitcase and put them away in the cupboard!


serviette

→ Bavarian: Serviettn

→ Deori: Serviette

→ Dutch: servet

→ English: serviette

→ Greek: σερβιέτα (serviéta)

→ Lithuanian: servetėlė

→ Indonesian: serbet

desctree

→ Polish: serwetka
→ Yiddish: סערוועטקע (servetke)

→ Romanian: șervet

→ Spanish: servilleta

Essuie ta bouche avec ta serviette !


caisson

→ English: caisson

→ Turkish: keson

From Old Occitan caisson, from caissa. By surface analysis, caisse + -on.

(engineering) caisson (structure to exclude water)


container

→ Turkish: konteyner

→ Vietnamese: công-te-nơ

Borrowed from English container (during the 1920s).


carafe

Borrowed from Italian caraffa, probably from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”).


ampoule

→ English: ampoule

→ Moore: ãmpulli

→ Persian: آمپول (âmpul)

→ Turkish: ampul

→ Laz: ამფული (ampuli)


poubelle

From the surname Poubelle, named after Eugène Poubelle, prefect of the Seine (i.e. chief administrator of Paris), who promulgated an ordinance in 1884 that all apartments should have trash cans.


portefeuille

→ Danish: portefølje

→ Dutch: portefeuille

→ German: Portefeuille

→ Limburgish: portefui

→ Norwegian Bokmål: portefølje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: portefølje

→ Polish: portfel

→ Portuguese: porta-fólio

→ Russian: портфе́ль (portfélʹ)

→ Romanian: portofel

→ Swedish: portfölj

→ Turkish: portföy

→ Ukrainian: портфе́ль (portfélʹ)

→ West Frisian: portefúlje

From porte (“carry”, third person singular indicative) + feuille (“sheet, paper”). Cognate with Italian portafoglio (whence French portfolio).


boîte

Haitian Creole: bwat

Mauritian Creole: bwat

Seychellois Creole: bwat

→ Malagasy: boaty

→ Moore: boata

→ Sicilian: buatta

→ Portuguese: boate

→ Spanish: boîte

Inherited from Old French boiste, from Vulgar Latin *buxita, from Late Latin buxis, from a conflation of Latin pyxis (“small box”) and buxus (“box tree”). Doublet of box.


gourde

Inherited from Old French coorde, cohourde, with later voicing of initial c-, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of courge (from the form cohourge). Compare English gourd.

(by extension) water bottle; flask; canteen (water bottle used by soldiers, camper etc.)


cercueil

Haitian Creole: sèkey

Esperanto: ĉerko

Alteration of Old French sarqueu, sarcou, from Latin sarcophagus. Doublet of sarcophage.

Dans son testament, il a demandé que son cercueil reste fermé pendant son enterrement.

In his will, he asked that his casket stay closed during his funeral.


tire-bouchon

tire-bouchons (plural)
tirebouchon (alternative)

→ Bulgarian: тирбушо́н (tirbušón)

→ Catalan: tirabuixó

→ Romanian: tirbușon

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: تیربوشون (tirbuşon), طرابشون (terabeşon), թիրպուշօն (tirbuşon) — Armeno-Turkish
Turkish: tirbuşon

corkscrew (to pull corks out of bottles)


bouteille

Haitian Creole: boutèy

Borrowings

→ Alemannic German: Butëlle

→ Aragonese: botella

→ Asturian: botella

→ Basque: botila

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+ <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="bg">-ка</i> (-ka)

→ Bulgarian: бутилка (butilka) (+ -ка (-ka))

→ Catalan: botella

→ Chinook Jargon: laputay (from la bouteille)

→ Makah: lapu·ta·y

desc

→ Dutch: bouteille, boetelje, bottelje, boutelje (all obsolete) (obsolete)

→ Galician: botella

→ German: Bouteille (obsolete, unadapted)

→ German: Buttel (adapted)

→ Polish: butla

⇒ Polish: butelka (see there for further descendants)

desctree

→ Italian: bottiglia
→ Albanian: butile, butilë, botile
→ Greek: μποτίλια (botília)
→ Serbo-Croatian: butelja /бутеља, botilja /ботиља

→ Lithuanian: butelis

→ Middle Low German: buddel

German Low German: Buddel

→ German: Buddel

Plautdietsch: Buddel

→ Estonian: pudel

→ Latvian: pudele

→ Moore: butelle, bugtelle

→ Northern Sami: bohtal

→ Portuguese: botelha

→ Romanian: butelie

→ Russian: бутыль (butylʹ)

→ Spanish: botella (see there for further descendants)

→ Swedish: butelj
→ Finnish: puteli

→ Serbo-Croatian: putela / путела

From Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula.

avec des si on mettrait Paris en bouteille

laisser sa raison au fond de la bouteille

boire à la bouteille


caisse

Inherited from Middle French caisse, borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa. Compare the etymological doublets châsse and casse.

Dans sa caisse / La musique à Joe / C'est la rumba

1987, “Joe le taxi”, Étienne Roda-Gil (lyrics), Franck Langolff (music), performed by Vanessa Paradis:


corbeille

→ English: corbeille

Inherited from Middle French corbeille, from Old French corbeille, corbeil, corbele, curbeyle, from Late Latin corbicula, diminutive of Latin corbis (“basket”), probably from Frankish *korb, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, *krebô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“bundle”).


cade

Inherited from Middle French cade, intruded around 1500 from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

western prickly juniper
western prickly juniper

Juniperus oxycedrus
Juniperus oxycedrus#Translingual

western prickly juniper, cade (Juniperus oxycedrus)


demi-tasse

→ English: demitasse

From demi- + tasse, literally “half cup”.

demitasse (“serving of coffee in such a cup”)


cubi

Genericized trademark, clipping of cubiteneur or cubitainer, from English cubitainer.


foudre

→ Catalan: fudre

→ Spanish: fudre

Borrowed from Middle High German vuoder, from Old High German fuodar, from Proto-West Germanic *fōþr. Cognate with English fother, German Fuder, Dutch voer, voeder, etc.

foeder (large barrel used for aging beer or wine)


enveloppe

→ Dutch: envelop (see there for further descendants)

→ English: envelope

→ Portuguese: envelope

→ Vietnamese: lốp

Inherited from Middle French enveloppe, anveloppe, from Old French envelope (“that which envelops, a type of garment”), from envoloper, anveloper (“to wrap around, enfold, cover”).

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(biology) envelope (an enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane)


coffre-fort

safe (a box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping)


canari

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


canari

a large container used in certain parts of Africa


hotte

Borrowed from Frankish *hotta (“basket”).

la hotte du Père Noël


bonbonnière

→ English: bonbonniere

→ Friulian: bomboniere

→ Italian: bomboniera

→ Portuguese: bonbonnière, bomboniere

desctree

бонбонье́рка

→⇒ Russian: бонбонье́рка (bonbonʹjérka)
→ Armenian: բոնբոներկա (bonbonerka), բամբաներկա (bambanerka), բանբաներկա (banbanerka)
→ Georgian: ბონბონიერი (bonbonieri), ბონბონერი (bonboneri), ბომბონერი (bomboneri) — nonstandard, ბანბანერკა (banbanerḳa), ბამბანერკა (bambanerḳa) — nonstandard

→ Sicilian: bummunera

(figuratively, informal) small, exquisite house


futaille

Une crue un peu forte s’est produite pendant la nuit, et le fleuve a recueilli un certain nombre d’objets imprudemment déposés trop près de ses rives, poutres, futailles vides, et autres matériaux susceptibles de flotter.

A rather strong flood occurred during the night, and the river collected a certain number of objects imprudently deposited too close to its banks, beams, empty barrels, and other materials likely to float.


douille

→ Greek: ντουί (ntouí)

→ Khmer: ឌូយ (duuy)

→ Romanian: dulie

Inherited from Middle French douille, from Old French doile, doelle (“the hollow part of a tool where the handle is fixed”), from Frankish *dollī, *dullī (“hollow tube, pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *dulją (“pipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰel- (“curvature, hollow”). Cognate with Old High German duli, tulli (“pipe”).

der

cartridge case (unprofessional; the correct term in the military is étui)


écuelle

Inherited from Old French escuele, from Latin scutella (in Vulgar Latin influenced by scūtum), diminutive of Latin scutra. Doublet of esquilette.


porte-monnaie

fr-noun

porte-monnaie m (plural porte-monnaies or porte-monnaie)

porte-monnaies (plural)
porte-monnaie (plural)
portemonnaie (alternative)

→ Armenian: պորտման (portman)

→ Azerbaijani: portman, portmanat

→ Danish: portemonnæ

desctree

→ Dutch: portemonnee, (superseded) portemonnaie
→ Caribbean Hindustani: patmoni
→ Papiamentu: pòtmòni

→ English: porte-monnaie

→ German: Portemonnaie

→ Ladino: portmoné

→ Polish: portmonetka

→ Romanian: portmoneu

→ Russian: портмоне́ (portmoné)

→ Swedish: portmonnä


coupelle

→ Catalan: copel·la

→ English: cupel, copel, coppel (obsolete)
→ Welsh: ciwpel


chaudière

Haitian Creole: chodyè

Inherited from Old French chaudiere, from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”).


cabas

→ English: cabas

→ Spanish: cabás

From Old Occitan cabas, a word of Iberian origin (compare Catalan cabàs, Old Galician-Portuguese cabaz, Spanish capazo).


cageot

a low-sided, openwork crate, usually for transporting fruits or vegetables


cuve

Inherited from Old French cuve, from Latin cūpa. Doublet of coupe, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant.


potiche

→ English: potiche


porte-documents

fr-noun

porte-documents m (plural porte-documents)


tupperware

Borrowed from English tupperware. Genericized trademark of the American company Tupperware.

Tupperware (a plastic food-storage container)


coffre au trésor

coffre au trésor m (plural coffres au trésor)


REEPS

2011. Initialism of réservoir d'eau enterré plein de sable.


sous-tasse

From sous- (“under”) + tasse (“cup”). Compare German Untertasse f, etc.

une tasse et une sous-tasse


soliflore

A vase designed to hold a single stem or flower.


vide-poche

vide-poches (plural)
vide-poches (alternative)

compartment (in door or central console of a car etc.)


pomme de senteur

pomme de senteur f (plural pommes de senteur)

(historical) pomander (perforated container in which the mixture was carried)


puisette

a household utensil used from the 13th to the 16th century, and sometimes later, for storing and distributing water