cornet

→ English: cornet

→ Switzerland German: Cornet

Il tenait à la main gauche un cornet semblable à celui dont usaient les postillons ; en cas de péril, l’alarme serait donnée au patron qui tenait la barre à l’arrière.

2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès, published 2012, page 17:

In his left hand he held a horn like those used by post riders; in case of danger, the alarm would be given to the owner who was at the forward rail.


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.


poche

Esperanto: poŝo
Ido: posho

Inherited from Middle French poche, from Old French puche, poche (“purse, small bag”), from Frankish *pokkō, *pokō (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *pukô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Reinforced by Old Norse puki, poki (“bag, pocket”), via Old Northern French.
Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pohha, pocca (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), and English pocket; compare also pouch.

ladle (container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal)


sac

Haitian Creole: sak

→ English: sac

→ Moroccan Arabic: صاك

→ Persian: ساک (sâk)

→ Sedang: xak

Inherited from Old French sac, from Latin saccus, from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “sack, bag; sackcloth”), ultimately from Semitic.

Coordinate term: brique


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.

der

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


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.


broc

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Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from Old Provençal broc, related to Italian brocca (“jug”).


sachet

→ English: sachet

→ Portuguese: sachê

→ Turkish: şase

From sac + -et, with palatalization of c.

ne pas avoir toutes ses frites dans le même sachet


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).


musette

Inherited from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is a deverbal of muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).

affix

nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)


boîte

Haitian Creole: bwat

→ Malagasy: boaty

Mauritian Creole: bwat

→ Moore: boata

Seychellois Creole: bwat

→ 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.

(colloquial) Ellipsis of boîte de nuit.: club, nightclub


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

→ 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)


chaudron

Inherited from Middle French chaudron, from Old French chauderon, ultimately from Late Latin caldāria (“cooking-pot”). Compare English cauldron (from the northern Old French variant caudron).


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.

ne pas être dans son assiette

(archaic) manner of being seated, situation

On a besoin d’assiettes.


bouteille

Haitian Creole: boutèy

Borrowings

→ Alemannic German: Butëlle

→ Aragonese: botella

→ Asturian: botella

→ Basque: botila

q

+ <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

avoir de la bouteille

prendre de 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

Inherited from Old French foudre, from Latin fulgura, nominative plural of fulgur, from Proto-Italic *folgos. Alternatively, from fulgere.

coup de foudre

la foudre ne tombe jamais deux fois au même endroit


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”).

inh

(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)


blague

18th century, from Dutch balg. The sense “joke” (ca. 1800) from the notion of something puffed up, hence vain, fanciful.


sac à dos

→ Khmer: សាកាដូ (saakaadou)

→ Portuguese: sacudu

rucksack, backpack (bag worn on a person's back)


hotte

Borrowed from Frankish *hotta (“basket”).

la hotte du Père Noël


cartable

→ Vietnamese: cạc-táp

Related to carte, but of unclear formation.


dame-jeanne

desc

→ Arabic: دَمَجَانَة (damajāna), جَمَدَانَة (jamadāna), دَامَجَانَة (dāmajāna)

→ Catalan: damajoana (calque)

→ English: demijohn (calque)

→ Czech: demižon

→ German: Demijohn

→ Hungarian: demizson

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: демѝжо̄н

Latin script: demìžōn

→ Finnish: damešaani

→ Italian: damigiana (calque)

→ Bulgarian: дамаджа́на (damadžána)

→ Romanian: damigeană

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: демѝжа̄на, демѝја̄на, демѐја̄на, димѝжа̄на

Latin script: demìžāna, demìjāna, demèjāna, dimìžāna

→ Spanish: damajuana (calque)

→ Swedish: damejeanne

→ Venetan: damigiana (calque)

→ Greek: νταμιτζάνα (ntamitzána)

→ Ottoman Turkish: داماجانه (damacana)

Turkish: damacana

Literally, “Lady Jane”; the name is an alteration of jane.

Les trois autres s’occupaient à décoiffer une énorme dame-jeanne de vin de Collioure; c’étaient les laquais de ces messieurs.

1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les trois mousquetaires:

The three others were busy uncorking an enormous demijohn of Collioure wine; they were these gentlemen's lackeys.

[…] Seulement, le soir, après le dîner, on avait posé sur la table une dame-jeanne d’une cinquantaine de litres, qu’il s’agissait de vider, avant d’aller se mettre au lit. Ils étaient dix, et déjà le père Bambousse renversait d’une seule main la dame-jeanne, d’où ne coulait plus qu’un mince filet rouge.

1875, Émile Zola, La faute de l'abbé Mouret:

[…] but, in the evening, after dinner, a demijohn of around fifty litres had been placed on the table, which they had set to emptying before going to bed. There were ten of them, and already old Bambousse knocked over the demijohn with one hand, and only a small red trickle came out.


pichet

From Old French pichier, bichier (compare English pitcher), from Late Latin pīcārium, bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Compare Italian bicchiere, German Becher.

(Western France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais) jug


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


sacoche

→ Dutch: sacoche

→ Romanian: sacoșă

Borrowed from Italian saccoccia, from sacco.


flacon

→ Danish: flakon

→ Dutch: flacon

→ English: flacon

→ Esperanto: flakono
Ido: flakono

→ German: Flakon

→ Hungarian: flakon

→ Indonesian: flakon

→ Italian: flacone

→ Polish: flakon

→ Romanian: flacon

→ Russian: флако́н (flakón)

→ Ukrainian: флако́н (flakón)

Inherited from Middle French flascon, from Late Latin flascō. Doublet of fiasco and flasque.


cruche

From Middle French cruche, from Old French crouche, kroche, cruche, from Frankish *krūkā, related to Proto-West Germanic *krōgu (“pot, pitcher”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Old Armenian կարաս (karas, “pitcher, large jar”), Ancient Greek κρωσσός (krōssós, “pitcher”), but the phonetics are problematic. Also compare Old Irish croiccenn (“skin”).
See also regional German Kruke (“crock”), Low German Kruuk (“jug”), Danish krukke (“jar”), Dutch kruik, English crock, and Icelandic krukka (“pot”).

cog

tant va la cruche à l’eau qu’à la fin elle se brise

tant va la cruche à l’eau qu’à la fin elle se casse

(Belgium, Upper Normandy, North-Eastern France) pitcher, jug

Upper Normandy; North-Eastern France; Upper Normandy; North-Eastern France


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)

→ 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


calebasse

→ Dutch: kalebas

→ English: calabash

→ Finnish: kalebassi

→ German: Kalebasse, Kalabasse

desc

→ Italian: calabassa, calebassa (archaic)

→ Occitan: calabassa

→ Russian: калеба́с (kalebás), калаба́с (kalabás), калеба́са (kalebása), калаба́са (kalabása), калаба́ш (kalabáš)

→ Swedish: kalebass

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Borrowed from Spanish calabaza (“pumpkin, gourd”).


coupelle

→ Catalan: copel·la

desctree

→ 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”).


bougette

Diminutive of Old French bouge (“pouch”), probably of Celtic origin. Doublet of budget.

(obsolete) budget (purse for carrying coins)


cabas

→ English: cabas

→ Spanish: cabás

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


flasque

Ultimately from Late Latin flascō. Doublet of fiasco and flacon.


cageot

bottle crate but made out of wood made of planks that are spaced in a bed-like fashion


carnier

Le gibier se précipite dans les rues et vient se jeter de lui-même dans le carnier du chasseur. (Dostoievsky, Souvenirs de la Maison des Morts p. 18)

a small sack used by hunters to carry game birds


cuve

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


besace

Inherited from Latin bisaccia, neuter plural of bisaccium, from bis and saccus. Doublet of bissac, biasse.

Il avait tiré deux autres bières de sa besace, et s’était lancé dans une diatribe courroucée[…].

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


galopin

→ Spanish: galopo

→ Catalan: guilopo

a half-sized Belgian beer-glass (ie 12.5cl) used for tastings


potiche

→ English: potiche


porte-documents

fr-noun

porte-documents m (plural porte-documents)


cagette

carton, (small) crate (or similar packaging)


coquemar

kettle or ewer with handle, spout and lid


coffre au trésor

coffre au trésor m (plural coffres au trésor)


topette

Perhaps from the same root as toupin (“top”) but with a different suffix.


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.


pomme de senteur

pomme de senteur f (plural pommes de senteur)

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