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Dis trois je vous salue Marie, et je veux point te voir icitte back à voler du plywood.

Say three hail Maries, and I don't want to see you back here stealing plywood.

(Louisiana, Missouri, Cajun, Acadia) back


machine

→ Amharic: ማሽን (mašn)

→ Azerbaijani: maşın

→ Danish: maskine
→ Faroese: maskina

desctree

→ Dutch: machine, masjine, masjien (adapted), machien (archaic or colloquial)
Afrikaans: masjien
→ Caribbean Javanese: mesin
→ Malay: mesin
Indonesian: mesin
→ Sundanese: mesin
→ Sranan Tongo: masyin
→ Aukan: masini
→ Caribbean Hindustani: mashin
→ Kari'na: masini
→ Saramaccan: masíni

→ German: Maschine (see there for further descendants)

→ Limburgish: mesjien

→ Norwegian: maskin

→ Pashto: ماشين (māšín)

→ Persian: ماشین (mâšin)
→ Central Kurdish: ماشێن (maşên)
→ Turkmen: maşyn

→ Romanian: mașină (also via German)

→ Spanish: mashina (Louisiana)

→ Swedish: maskin

→ Tajik: мошин (mošin), мошина (mošina)
→ Yagnobi: мошин (mošin)

→ Esperanto: maŝino

Inherited from Middle French machine, borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Ancient Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́). Not to be confused with machin, which means "thing".


huitante

Inherited from Old French oitante, uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (“eighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *oktōḱomt, from earlier *oḱto(w)-dḱomt (“eight-ten”). Cognate with Jèrriais huiptante, Valencian Catalan huitanta. Doublet of octante.

Il a écrit huitante mots.

(obsolete outside Vaud, Valais and Fribourg in Switzerland and other dialects: Acadia, Cajun) eighty


nonante

Inherited from Old French nonante, from Latin nōnāgintā, from earlier *nūnāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥dḱomt (“nine tens”).

inh

Il a attendu nonante minutes.

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety

Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia


septante

Inherited from Old French setante, from Latin septuāgintā, from *septmāginta, from Proto-Indo-European *septm̥̄ḱomt, from earlier *septḿ̥dḱomt (“seven-ten”). The -p- was restored under influence of the Latin word.

(Belgium, Switzerland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Acadia, Savoy) seventy

Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia; Savoy; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia; Savoy


présent

présents (plural)
præsent (alternative obsolete)

(dated outside Louisiana and Acadia) gift; present


païen

fr-noun

païen m (plural païens, feminine païenne)

Inherited from Old French pagien, païen, from Latin pāgānus (“rural, rustic; pagan”), from pāgus (“countryside”).


poutine

Attested from 1810. Etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* a variant of pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or
* from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified.
Sense 1 is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957.
Cognates
* Michif poutchine (possibly)

coinage

(Acadia) any of several potato-based dishes


huiptante

Inherited from Old French uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (compare dialectal French huitante). The -p- is from series contamination with septante (“seventy”).

(Acadia) alternative form of huitante (“eighty”)


aboiteau

(Canada, Acadia) a dike built for land reclamation

(Canada, Acadia) the sluice in a dike that allows water out at low tide, but blocks its entry at high tide


vaillant

fr-adj

vaillant (feminine vaillante, masculine plural vaillants, feminine plural vaillantes)

vaillante (feminine)
vaillants (masculine plural)
vaillantes (feminine plural)

Old present participle of the verb valoir (compare the modern form valant): from Old French vaillant, from Latin valentem.


besson

besson (feminine bessonne, masculine plural bessons, feminine plural bessonnes)

bessonne (feminine)
bessons (masculine plural)
bessonnes (feminine plural)


besson

fr-noun

besson m (plural bessons, feminine bessonne)


septantième

(Belgium, Switzerland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Acadia, Savoy, ordinal number) seventieth


septantième

(Belgium, Switzerland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Acadia, Savoy, fractional number) seventieth

Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia; Savoy; fractional number; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia; Savoy; fractional number


nonantième

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia, ordinal number) ninetieth


nonantième

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia, fractional number) ninetieth

Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia; fractional number; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Acadia; fractional number


brogane

Possibly from Irish bróg (“boot, shoe”) + -án (diminutive).


septante-neuf

From septante (“seventy”) + neuf (“nine”).

(Belgium, Switzerland, Congo, Acadia, Savoy) seventy-nine


tcheindre

From Latin teneō, tenēre (“hold, have; grasp”).


rinque

J'fais rinque d'avoir mon income tax return

(Acadia, dialectal) Used to express recency- similar to juste.


nonante et un

From nonante (“ninety”) + et (“and”) + un (“one”).

af

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-one


guinille

[…] et voyons pas les leurs quanc qu'ils se sauvent du bullgine avec leur robe en guinilles.

1982, Pierre Marie Gérin, Marichette, lettres acadiennes, 1895-1898, page 114:

(Louisiana, Acadia) alternative form of guenille (a rag, a ragged garment)


suête

(Acadia) southeast; contraction of sud-est


cheval du diable

fr-noun

cheval du diable m (plural chevaux du diable)

From cheval + du + diable, literally “devil’s horse”.

compound

(Louisiana, Cajun, Acadia) praying mantis


nonante-deux

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-two


nonante-trois

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-three


nonante-quatre

From nonante (“ninety”) + quatre (“four”).

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-four


nonante-cinq

From nonante (“ninety”) + cinq (“five”).

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-five


nonante-six

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-six


nonante-sept

From nonante (“ninety”) + sept (“seven”).

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-seven


nonante-huit

From nonante (“ninety”) + huit (“eight”).

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-eight


nonante-neuf

From nonante (“ninety”) + neuf (“nine”).

(Switzerland, Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Acadia) ninety-nine


septantaine

(Belgium, Switzerland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Acadia, Savoy) about seventy


à la valdrague

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-à la valdrague.wav

(Acadia) alternative form of en valdrague


valdrague

(Acadia) the state of being ruined and/or abandoned


faire rinque de

/fɛʁ ʁɛ̃k də/

(Acadia) to have just done [with infinitive]


pied-de-vent

Compound of pied + de + vent, literally “wind’s foot”.