"daggere" meaning in Middle English

See daggere in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: daggeres [plural], daggare [alternative], dagard [alternative]
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from a verb *daggen, attested as Early Modern English (c. 1400) dagge, + -ere. The verb is from the noun *dagge, from Old French dague. However, dagard may be the older form, as if reflecting Old French *daguard with the suffix -ard as in Middle French poignard, though somewhat opaque semantically; in that case, Middle English -ere may simply be the result of nativization. . 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Old French dague, {{m+|fro|*daguard}} Old French *daguard, {{cog|frm|poignard}} Middle French poignard, {{m+|enm|-ere}} Middle English -ere, {{ety|enm|:af&lt;unc:1&gt;|*daggen&lt;ety:af&lt;*dagge&lt;ety:bor&lt;fro:dague&lt;id:dagger&gt;&lt;ety:bor&lt;pro:daga&lt;ety:bor&lt;it:daga&lt;unc:1&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&lt;-en&lt;id:infinitival&gt;&gt;&gt;|-ere&lt;id:agent suffix&gt;|:influence|frm:poignard}} Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=|var=}} daggere, {{enm-noun}} daggere (plural daggeres)
  1. dagger

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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