chien

French: chien

From Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem.


elephant

desctree

French: éléphant
Haitian Creole: elefan
→ Romanian: elefant

→ Irish: eilifint

→ Norman: êléphant, éléphant


ours

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ours m (plural ours, feminine singular ourse, feminine plural ourses)

ours (plural)
ourse (feminine singular)
ourses (feminine plural)

French: ours


chat

chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)

chats (plural)
chatz (plural)
chatte (feminine singular)
chattes (feminine plural)

French: chat

From Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.


heron

French: héron

From Old French heron, of Germanic origin, probably from Frankish *hraigrō.


cheval

desctree

French: cheval
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


abeille

French: abeille
→ Esperanto: abelo
Ido: abelo

Borrowed from Old Occitan abelha, from Latin apicula.

Apis mellifera
Apis mellifera#Translingual


giraffe

French: girafe
→ Catalan: girafa
→ Luxembourgish: Giraff
→ Polish: żyrafa
→ Romanian: girafă
→ Swedish: giraff
→ Finnish: kirahvi

→ English: giraffe

Etymology tree
Classical Persian زُرْنَا (zurnā)
Classical Persian پَا (pā)
Classical Persian زُرْنَاپَا (zurnāpā)bor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܝܦܐbor.
Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa)bor.
Italian giraffabor.
Middle French giraffe
Borrowed from Italian giraffa.


vache

French: vache
Haitian Creole: vach

From Old French vache, from Latin vacca.


serpent

French: serpent

From Old French serpent, from Latin serpentem, accusative singular form of serpēns.


bœuf

From Old French buef, boef, from Latin bos, bovem.


avete

1600, Olivier de Serres, Le Théâtre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs, 1996 ed., Paris: Actes Sud, 631, →ISBN
Le ruscher sera assis en lieu net et secret ; les avetes haïssans la saleté et toutes sortes de mauvaises senteurs, marescages, bourbiers, fumiers, retraicts, et semblables endroits puants.

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mouton

desctree

French: mouton
Haitian Creole: mouton
Louisiana Creole: mouton
Seychellois Creole: mouton
→ English: mouton
>? Galician: motóa

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


lapin

French: lapin (see there for further descendants)


loup

French: loup
Haitian Creole: lou
⇒ Mauritian Creole: lulu
⇒ Seychellois Creole: loulou
→ English: loo; Loup

From a western dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), replacing the native Old French, all from Latin lupus.


aigle

French: aigle


cerf

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cerf m (plural cerfs, feminine singular biche, feminine plural biches)

cerfs (plural)
biche (feminine singular)
biches (feminine plural)

From Old French cerf, from Latin cervus.


chameau

French: chameau


corbeau

French: corbeau m
→ English: corbeau

→ English: corbie

→ Scots: corbie


faisan

French: faisan
→ Romanian: fazan

Norman: faîsan (Jersey)

Inherited from Old French faisan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).


tortue

French: tortue

Norman: tortue

→ Middle English: tortou, tortu

English: turtle

→ Irish: turtar

Borrowed from Old Occitan tortuga, tartuga.


martagon

From Old Anatolian Turkish [Term?] (Ottoman Turkish مارطغان, modern Turkish martağan), originally a style of turban.


scolopendre

French: scolopendre

Borrowed from Latin scolopendra/scolopendrium, from Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra)/σκολόπένδριο (skolópéndrio).
Mentioned in Olivier de Serres' Théâtre d'Agriculture et mesnage des champs (1600).

Asplenium scolopendrium
Asplenium scolopendrium#Translingual

hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)

Dictionnaire de la langue française
Olivier de Serres
Émile Littré


lapereau

French: lapereau

Probably of Iberian origin (compare Portuguese láparo). See also Latin lepus, of same origin.


chesne

French: chêne


beuf

French: bœuf


fresne

French: frêne


asne

French: âne

From Old French asne, from Latin asinus.


avette

From Old French ef (“bee”), with the diminutive ending -ette.

Lors que les papillons et les blondes avettes
Les uns chargez au bec, le autres aus cuissettes,

1560, Pierre Ronsard, Pièces ajoutées aux Amours:


taulpe

French: taupe

From Old French taupe, tope, with the l added back to reflect the original Latin talpa.


mousche

desctree

French: mouche
→ English: mouche
→ Portuguese: muche
→ Swedish: musch
→ Turkish: muş


lyon

French: lion
Haitian Creole: lyon
Mauritian Creole: lyon
Seychellois Creole: lyon

From Old French lion, from Latin leo, leonis.


blereau

French: blaireau

From Old French blereau, which according to Bratchet is from a diminutive of blé (“corn, wheat”) thus meaning an animal that feeds on corn.


perdrys

French: perdrix


grenoille

French: grenouille


austruche

French: autruche


faulcon

French: faucon


cycne

« Tel doux chant les Cycnes chantent. »

1579, Pierre Le Loyer, La Néphélococugie:


fustet

French: fustet
→ English: fustet, fustic, fustoc
→ German: Fustet, Fustic, Fustetholz, Fusticholz, Fisetholz
→ Spanish: fustoc

From Old Occitan fustet, from Arabic فُسْتَق (fustaq) with Occitanized ending.

Quant à la traite des marchandises qui sortent de ce royaume, il y a plusieurs grands personages qui s’efforcent, & se font efforcez par ditz & par escripts de la retrencher du tout, s’il leur estoit possible; croyans que nous pouvouns vivre heureusement & à grand marché sans rien bailler, ny recevoir de l’estranger, mais ils s’abusent à mon advis:car nous avons afaire des estrangers, & ne s’avrions nous en passer. Ie confesse que nous leur envoyons blé, vin, sel, safran, pastel, pruneaux, papier, draps & grosses toiles. aussi avons nous d’eux en contrechange, premierement tous les metaux, hormis le fer : nous avons d’eux, or, argent, estain, cuivre, plomb, acier, vif argent, alun, souphre, vitriol, couperoze, cynabre, huiles, cire, miel, poix, bresil, ebene, fustel, gaiac, yvoire, maroquins, toiles fines, couleurs de conchenil, escarlate, cramoysi, drogues de toutes sortes, epiceries, sucres, chevaux, saleures de saumons, sardines, maquereaux, molves, bref une infinité de bons livres & excellens ouvrages de main.

1566, Jehan Cherruyt, Sieur de Malestroict, Les Paradoxes du Seigneur de Malestroict Conseiller du Roy & Maitre ordinaire des ses comptes, sur le faict des Monnoyes, présentez à Sa Majesté au moys de Mars, Paris: Martin Le Ieune, published 1568, avec la réponse de M. Jean Bodin ausdicts paradoxes ᴳᴮ, page 45:

In what concerns the wares which go out of this kingdom, there are many grand persons who endeavour this, and endeavour for the said and written things to deduct their share from all, if it be possible: believing we can live happy and with great steps without perusing too much trust into or receiving much from the foreigner, but they have mistaken my advice: for we deal with foreigners and wouldn’t have aught to pass from there. I confess that we send them wheat, wine, salt, saffron, woad, plums, paper, draperies and gross fabric, and get from them in exchange primarily all metals save iron: we have from them gold, silver, tin, copper, lead, steel, quicksilver, alum, sulphur, vitriol, copperas, cinnabar, oils, wax, honey, pitch, bresilwood, ebony, fustet, guaiacum, ivory, maroquin, fine cloths, cochineal colours, scarlet, crimson, drugs of all kinds, spices, sugars, horses, salted salmons, sardines, mackerels, lings, in short an infinity of good books and excellent manuscripts.

Cotinus coggygria
Cotinus coggygria#Translingual


lievre

French: lièvre


oizeau

French: oiseau

bird (any of several flying, egg-laying species)


lezart

French: lézard
→ Romanian: lezard

From Old French lesard, laisarde, from Latin lacertus.


palefroy

French: palefroi

Old French palefrei, from Late Latin paraverēdus.


pastenaille

French: pastenade, patenais

→ German: Pastiney, Pastinei

→ Ottoman Turkish: پاستنای (pastinay)

From Old Occitan pastenaga (“carrot”), from Latin pastināca. Doublet of panais from Old French pasnaie.


laperiau

Alternative form of lapereau (“young rabbit”)