chien

fro-noun

chien oblique singular, m (oblique plural chiens, nominative singular chiens, nominative plural chien)

chien oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chiens (oblique plural)
chiens (nominative singular)
chien (nominative plural)

Middle French: chien

French: chien

Angevin: chin

Bourguignon: chein

Champenois: chin

Franc-Comtois: tchïn

Norman: quien

Picard: tchien, kien, quien

Walloon: tchén


tigre

tigre oblique singular, m (oblique plural tigres, nominative singular tigres, nominative plural tigre)

tigre oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
tigres (oblique plural)
tigres (nominative singular)
tigre (nominative plural)


tigre

tigre oblique singular, f (oblique plural tigres, nominative singular tigre, nominative plural tigres)

tigre oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
tigres (oblique plural)
tigre (nominative singular)
tigres (nominative plural)


taupe

taupe oblique singular, f (oblique plural taupes, nominative singular taupe, nominative plural taupes)

taupe oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
taupes (oblique plural)
taupe (nominative singular)
taupes (nominative plural)

French: taupe

Norman: taupe (Jersey)


rat

rat oblique singular, m (oblique plural raz or ratz, nominative singular raz or ratz, nominative plural rat)

rat oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
raz (oblique plural)
ratz (oblique plural)
raz (nominative singular)
ratz (nominative singular)
rat (nominative plural)

Middle French: rat

French: rat

Norman: rat

Of Germanic origin, from Old High German rato (“rat”) or Frankish *rato (“rat”).


chat

chat oblique singular, m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)

chat oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chaz (oblique plural)
chatz (oblique plural)
chaz (nominative singular)
chatz (nominative singular)
chat (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: chait

desc

Champenois: chait (Troyen), tait (Rémois)

Franc-Comtois: tchait

Middle French: chat

French: chat

Lorrain: tchat

Norman: cat

Picard: cat

Poitevin-Saintongeais: chat

Walloon: tchet


falcon

fro-noun

falcon oblique singular, m (oblique plural falcons, nominative singular falcons, nominative plural falcon)

falcon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
falcons (oblique plural)
falcons (nominative singular)
falcon (nominative plural)


camel

camel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cameus, nominative singular cameus, nominative plural camel)

camel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cameus (oblique plural)
cameus (nominative singular)
camel (nominative plural)

(Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) camel


cheval

cheval oblique singular, m (oblique plural chevaus or chevax or chevals, nominative singular chevaus or chevax or chevals, nominative plural cheval)

cheval oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chevaus (oblique plural)
chevax (oblique plural)
chevals (oblique plural)
chevaus (nominative singular)
chevax (nominative singular)
chevals (nominative singular)
cheval (nominative plural)

desc

Bourguignon: chevau, ch'vau, g'vau, z'vau

Champenois: cheveau

Middle French: cheval (see there for further descendants)

Lorrain: tchevâ

Norman: queval

Picard: cval, cvau

Walloon: tchivå, tchvå

→ Gascon: chivau

circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

-Erec got down from his horse.

Maint bon cheval i unt tué


ewe

fro-noun

ewe oblique singular, f (oblique plural ewes, nominative singular ewe, nominative plural ewes)

ewe oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
ewes (oblique plural)
ewe (nominative singular)
ewes (nominative plural)


poisson

poisson oblique singular, m (oblique plural poissons, nominative singular poissons, nominative plural poisson)

poisson oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
poissons (oblique plural)
poissons (nominative singular)
poisson (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: poisson

desctree

French: poisson
Haitian Creole: pwason
Louisiana Creole: pwason
Mauritian Creole: pwason
Seychellois Creole: pwason

desc

Norman: païssaon, paîsson (Jersey), peissoun (continental Normandy), peissoun, païssaon (Guernsey), paîsson (Jersey)

Picard: pichon
→ French: pichon

Walloon: pexhon

First attested as pescion in 980, from peis + -on, peis (“fish”) being from Latin piscis. Alternatively, but less likely, it came through a Vulgar Latin *pisciō, pisciōnem. Peis probably evolved into pescion within Old French to avoid confusion with its homonym peis (“peace”).


vache

fro-noun

vache oblique singular, f (oblique plural vaches, nominative singular vache, nominative plural vaches)

vache oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
vaches (oblique plural)
vache (nominative singular)
vaches (nominative plural)

Angevin: vache

Bourguignon: vaiche

desc

Champenois: vaiche (Troyen), vate (Rémois)

Franc-Comtois: vaitche

desctree

Middle French: vache
French: vache
Haitian Creole: vach

Lorrain: vaitche

Norman: vaque

Picard: vake

Poitevin-Saintongeais: vache

Walloon: vatche


lu

fro-noun

lu oblique singular, m (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lu)

lu oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
lus (oblique plural)
lus (nominative singular)
lu (nominative plural)


serpent

serpent oblique singular, m (oblique plural serpenz or serpentz, nominative singular serpenz or serpentz, nominative plural serpent)

serpent oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
serpenz (oblique plural)
serpentz (oblique plural)
serpenz (nominative singular)
serpentz (nominative singular)
serpent (nominative plural)

Middle French: serpent
French: serpent

Walloon: sierpint

→ Middle English: serpent

English: serpent

→ Dutch: serpent


lion

lion oblique singular, m (oblique plural lions, nominative singular lions, nominative plural lion)

lion oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
lions (oblique plural)
lions (nominative singular)
lion (nominative plural)

desctree

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

Norman: lioun, lion, lliaon, lyõ

Picard: lion

→ Breton: leon

→ Middle English: lyoun, lion, leon, lioun, lyon, liun, lyoone, leun, lyoon, lyown, lyun, leoun, lyone
English: lion (see there for further descendants)
Scots: lion
Yola: leeoon, leioon

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin leō, leōnem, derived from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).


baleine

fro-noun

baleine oblique singular, f (oblique plural baleines, nominative singular baleine, nominative plural baleines)

baleine oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
baleines (oblique plural)
baleine (nominative singular)
baleines (nominative plural)

French: baleine

desctree

→ Middle English: baleyne, balena
English: baleen

Latin bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina)


bacon

fro-noun

bacon oblique singular, m (oblique plural bacons, nominative singular bacons, nominative plural bacon)

bacon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
bacons (oblique plural)
bacons (nominative singular)
bacon (nominative plural)

Middle French: bacon

Picard: bacôn (Athois)

desctree

→ Middle English: bacoun
English: bacon (see there for further descendants)
Scots: bawcon
→ Welsh: bacwn
Yola: bawkoon, bawcoon, bacoon, bakoon

From Frankish *bakō, from Proto-Germanic *bakô.

bacon, salted pork, ham, shank (of a pig)


porc

fro-noun

porc oblique singular, m (oblique plural pors, nominative singular pors, nominative plural porc)

porc oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
pors (oblique plural)
pors (nominative singular)
porc (nominative plural)

Middle French: porc
French: porc

Norman: por

desctree

→ Middle English: pork, porc, porke
English: pork
Scots: pork, porc, porck

il ne doit mengier […] chair de porc

1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 180 of this essay:

he must not eat […] pork (literally, the flesh of a pig)


leu

fro-noun

leu oblique singular, m (oblique plural leus, nominative singular leus, nominative plural leu)

leu oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
leus (oblique plural)
leus (nominative singular)
leu (nominative plural)

Middle French: leu

⇒ French: à la queue leu leu

desctree

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


singe

fro-noun

singe oblique singular, m (oblique plural singes, nominative singular singes, nominative plural singe)

singe oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
singes (oblique plural)
singes (nominative singular)
singe (nominative plural)

French: singe

Franc-Comtois: sindge

Norman: sînge (Jersey)

Walloon: séndje


raisin

raisin oblique singular, m (oblique plural raisins, nominative singular raisins, nominative plural raisin)

raisin oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
raisins (oblique plural)
raisins (nominative singular)
raisin (nominative plural)

French: raisin

Norman: raisin, rouaisin

desc

Picard: rosin, reusin, rojin, roisin, rouaisin

Walloon: reujin, rouaijin, roijin

→ Middle Dutch: rosine

Dutch: rozijn

→ Middle High German: rosīn

desctree

German: Rosine
→ Polish: rodzynka
→ Kashubian: rozina
→ Czech: rozinka, ⇒ hrozinka (contaminated with hrozen)
⇒ Slovak: hrozienko (contaminated with hrozno)

→ Middle Low German: rosīne

→ Danish: rosin

→ Middle English: raysyn, raycin, reyson, reysyn, rasyn, rayson, resyn, reyseyn, raysing, racine, resonne, reysynge
English: raisin
→ Japanese: レーズン (rēzun)
Scots: raisin, reasin

→ Middle Irish: [Term?]

Irish: rísín

→ Middle Welsh: [Term?]

Welsh: rhesin

→? Old Norse: rúsína

Icelandic: rúsína

Swedish: russin

→ Finnish: rusina

→ Sicilian: racina

From Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus.


mouton

fro-noun

mouton oblique singular, m (oblique plural moutons, nominative singular moutons, nominative plural mouton)

mouton oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
moutons (oblique plural)
moutons (nominative singular)
mouton (nominative plural)

desctree

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

Norman: mouton

Walloon: moton

→ Middle English: motoun, moton, motun, moten, mutoun, motone, mutton, motton, motene
English: mutton
Scots: mutton
Yola: muthon, mothoon

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


pomme d'orenge

fro-noun

pomme d'orenge oblique singular, f (oblique plural pommes d'orenge, nominative singular pomme d'orenge, nominative plural pommes d'orenge)

pomme d'orenge oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
pommes d'orenge (oblique plural)
pomme d'orenge (nominative singular)
pommes d'orenge (nominative plural)

desctree

⇒ Old French: orenge, orange
Middle French: orange, orenge
French: orange (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle English: orenge, arange, araunge, orange, orynge
English: orange
→ Esperanto: oranĝo
→ Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
→ Kashubian: orendż (Canada, United States)
→ Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
→ Makah: ʔo·linčas
→ Malay: oren
→ Marshallese: oran
Scots: orange, oranger
Norman: orange

Calque of Old Italian melarancia, with initial O by influence of the toponym Orenge and Old Occitan auranja.


leon

fro-noun

leon oblique singular, m (oblique plural leons, nominative singular leons, nominative plural leon)

leon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
leons (oblique plural)
leons (nominative singular)
leon (nominative plural)

Et li leons, qui che esgarde,
De li aidier plus ne se tarde[.]

c. 1170, Christian of Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au lion:

And the lion who was watching
Did not wait any longer to help him.


carpel

carpel oblique singular, m (oblique plural carpiaus, nominative singular carpiaus, nominative plural carpel)

carpel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
carpiaus (oblique plural)
carpiaus (nominative singular)
carpel (nominative plural)

French: carpeau


ostur

ostur oblique singular, m (oblique plural osturs, nominative singular osturs, nominative plural ostur)

ostur oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
osturs (oblique plural)
osturs (nominative singular)
ostur (nominative plural)

ove ses dras, a ses oisels,
dunt il ad de bons e de bels.
En sun pung prent un grant ostur
e un drap d'estrange culur

c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 214, lines 2814–7:

with his cloths and his birds
among which a number of fine ones
he takes a large goshawk in his hand
and a cloth of a strange color


lus

lus oblique singular, m (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lus)

lus oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
lus (oblique plural)
lus (nominative singular)
lus (nominative plural)


urs

urs oblique singular, m (oblique plural urs, nominative singular urs, nominative plural urs)

urs oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
urs (oblique plural)
urs (nominative singular)
urs (nominative plural)

Middle French: ours

French: ours

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *orssos
Latin ursus
Old French urs
Inherited from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos.


beste

fro-noun

beste oblique singular, f (oblique plural bestes, nominative singular beste, nominative plural bestes)

beste oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
bestes (oblique plural)
beste (nominative singular)
bestes (nominative plural)

Middle French: beste

French: bête

Gallo: bestt

Norman: baête (Cotentin), beyte (Pays de Caux, Pays de Rouen), beet (Sark)

→ Middle Dutch: beest

desctree

Dutch: beest
Afrikaans: bees
Jersey Dutch: bêst, beîśe
Negerhollands: beest
→ Papiamentu: bichi
→ Sranan Tongo: beist

→ Middle Low German: best

Low German: Beest

→ Danish: bæst

→ German: Biest

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: beist, best

Norwegian Nynorsk: beist

→ Swedish: best

→ Middle English: beeste, beste, beest, best, beast, beaste
English: beast
Scots: beast, baste, baist, baest, beist, best
Yola: beast

Probably a semi-learned term borrowed partly from Latin bēstia. Compare bisse (modern French biche), which was popularly inherited from a variant (bīstia) of the same word. An alternative hypothesis derives beste from an unattested Vulgar Latin variant form *bēsta (deduced through a supposed diminutive form bēstula), though this is unlikely as it would assume there was a second popular variant of bēstia (bīstia being well attested).


poivre

fro-noun

poivre oblique singular, m (oblique plural poivres, nominative singular poivres, nominative plural poivre)

poivre oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
poivres (oblique plural)
poivres (nominative singular)
poivre (nominative plural)

French: poivre

Norman: paîvre, pêvre (Jersey) (Guernsey), pevr (Sark)

Walloon: poevrî


aigle

aigle oblique singular, m (oblique plural aigles, nominative singular aigles, nominative plural aigle)

aigle oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
aigles (oblique plural)
aigles (nominative singular)
aigle (nominative plural)

Middle French: aigle
French: aigle

Anglo-Norman: egle

desctree

→ Middle English: egle, agle, egel
English: eagle (see there for further descendants)
Scots: aigle

Norman: aiglle, aigl'ye (Jersey)

Either borrowed from Old Occitan aigla or taken from Latin aquila. Cf. the variant form aille, which may be popularly inherited.

La sisisme ligne est sourpoins. Cist est molt grans, et resemble aigle blanche, mais des oilz et des eles et dou bec est il semblables au girfaut

1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “De tous Faucons [On all falcons]” (chapter 150), Book 5, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 203:

The sixth kind [of falcon] is the saker. It is very large, and resembles the white eagle; but in the eyes, and in the wings, and in the beak, it is similar to the gyrfalcon


oie

fro-noun

oie oblique singular, f (oblique plural oies, nominative singular oie, nominative plural oies)

oie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
oies (oblique plural)
oie (nominative singular)
oies (nominative plural)

Franc-Comtois: ôye

French: oie

Norman: ouaïe (Guernsey), ouaie (Jersey), ouée (continental Normandy)

From Vulgar Latin auca, contraction of *avica, from Latin avis (“bird”).


cerf

cerf oblique singular, m (oblique plural cers, nominative singular cers, nominative plural cerf)

cerf oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cers (oblique plural)
cers (nominative singular)
cerf (nominative plural)

Middle French: cerf


jument

jument oblique singular, f (oblique plural jumenz or jumentz, nominative singular jument, nominative plural jumenz or jumentz)

jument oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
jumenz (oblique plural)
jumentz (oblique plural)
jument (nominative singular)
jumenz (nominative plural)
jumentz (nominative plural)

desctree

French: jument
→ Catalan: jument
→ Franco-Provençal: jument

Norman: jeunment

→ Middle English: jument
English: jument


corbel

fro-noun

corbel oblique singular, m (oblique plural corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative singular corbeaus or corbeax or corbiaus or corbiax or corbels, nominative plural corbel)

corbel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
corbeaus (oblique plural)
corbeax (oblique plural)
corbiaus (oblique plural)
corbiax (oblique plural)
corbels (oblique plural)
corbeaus (nominative singular)
corbeax (nominative singular)
corbiaus (nominative singular)
corbiax (nominative singular)
corbels (nominative singular)
corbel (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: corbeau m
French: corbeau m
→ English: corbeau
→ English: corbie
→ Scots: corbie

→ Middle English: corbel

English: corbel

Either a diminutive of corp (“raven”), corf, or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus, from Latin corvus (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus).


carpe

fro-noun

carpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural carpes, nominative singular carpe, nominative plural carpes)

carpe oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
carpes (oblique plural)
carpe (nominative singular)
carpes (nominative plural)

→ English: carp

French: carpe


saumon

saumon oblique singular, m (oblique plural saumons, nominative singular saumons, nominative plural saumon)

saumon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
saumons (oblique plural)
saumons (nominative singular)
saumon (nominative plural)

desctree

French: saumon
Haitian Creole: somon
→ Romanian: somon
→ Turkish: somon

→ Middle English: samoun, salmon, samen, samon, samone, samown, samun, samwn, saumon, sawmoun, sawmun
English: salmon
→ Burmese: ဆယ်လမွန် (hcaila.mwan)
→ Hebrew: סַלְמוֹן (sálmon)
→ Hindi: सामन (sāman)
→ Japanese: サーモン (sāmon)
Scots: saumon, sawmon
Yola: zamoon


lou

fro-noun

lou oblique singular, m (oblique plural lous, nominative singular lous, nominative plural lou)

lou oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
lous (oblique plural)
lous (nominative singular)
lou (nominative plural)

French: loup

From Latin lupus. Of dialectal origin or formed analogically from the feminine louve.


chen

chen oblique singular, m (oblique plural chens, nominative singular chens, nominative plural chen)

chen oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chens (oblique plural)
chens (nominative singular)
chen (nominative plural)

(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of chien


bisse

bisse oblique singular, f (oblique plural bisses, nominative singular bisse, nominative plural bisses)

bisse oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
bisses (oblique plural)
bisse (nominative singular)
bisses (nominative plural)

Middle French: biche

French: biche

From Vulgar Latin bīstia, variant of Latin bēstia. Doublet of beste.

Wace, Le Roman de Rou
Cum l'um prent bisse al piege


salamandre

salamandre oblique singular, f (oblique plural salamandres, nominative singular salamandre, nominative plural salamandres)

salamandre oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
salamandres (oblique plural)
salamandre (nominative singular)
salamandres (nominative plural)

Salamandre est dit, si cum truvum escrit,

c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 660:

It is called salamander, which is how we find it written


furet

furet oblique singular, m (oblique plural furez or furetz, nominative singular furez or furetz, nominative plural furet)

furet oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
furez (oblique plural)
furetz (oblique plural)
furez (nominative singular)
furetz (nominative singular)
furet (nominative plural)

desctree

French: furet
→ Middle Dutch: furet, fret
Dutch: fret
→ German: Frett, Frettchen
→ Finnish: fretti

→ Middle English: furet, ferret

Scots: ferret

English: ferret

From Vulgar Latin *fūrittus (literally “little thief”) (compare Italian furetto), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”). See also fuiron (“weasel, ferret”), from Vulgar Latin *fūriō, fūriōnem, from Late Latin fūrō (“cat; robber”) (compare Spanish hurón), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”).


laitue

fro-noun

laitue oblique singular, f (oblique plural laitues, nominative singular laitue, nominative plural laitues)

laitue oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
laitues (oblique plural)
laitue (nominative singular)
laitues (nominative plural)

French: laitue

Norman: laitue (Jersey)

→ Middle Dutch: latuwe

Dutch: latuw, lattouwe

desctree

→ Middle English: letuse, letus, letys, letuce, letuze, letes, letows, letyse
English: lettuce
Scots: lettuce, lattice
→ Welsh: letys


hous

Middle French: hous, houx, houlx

French: houx

Norman: housse (Jèrriais)

Picard: hoûx (Athois), oûch

Walloon: hoû (Charleroi), hoûssê (Forrières), hoûs

Borrowed from Frankish *hulis (“holly”).


macis

fro-noun

macis oblique singular, m (nominative singular macis)

macis oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
macis (nominative singular)

Middle French: macis

desctree

→ Middle English: macys, maas, mace, maces, macez, macz, mases, masis, masys, mauce
English: mace
→ Japanese: メース (meisu)
→ Korean: 메이스 (meiseu)
→ Maori: meihi
→ Welsh: mês

French: macis
→ Greek: μασίς (masís)

From Medieval Latin macis, possible corruption of Latin macir, the name of a different spice, q.v.


vigne

fro-noun

vigne oblique singular, f (oblique plural vignes, nominative singular vigne, nominative plural vignes)

vigne oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
vignes (oblique plural)
vigne (nominative singular)
vignes (nominative plural)

Anglo-Norman: vinne, viegne, veigne

desctree

→ Middle English: vine
English: vine
Scots: vine

Bourguignon: veigne

Middle French: vigne

French: vigne

Norman: vîngne

From Vulgar Latin vinia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”).


pantere

fro-noun

pantere oblique singular, f (oblique plural panteres, nominative singular pantere, nominative plural panteres)

pantere oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
panteres (oblique plural)
pantere (nominative singular)
panteres (nominative plural)

→ English: panther

French: panthère


faucon

faucon oblique singular, m (oblique plural faucons, nominative singular faucons, nominative plural faucon)

faucon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
faucons (oblique plural)
faucons (nominative singular)
faucon (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: faulcon, faucon, falcon
French: faucon

desc

→ Middle English: faucoun, falcon, faucon, faukon

English: falcon

→ Irish: fabhcún


vultur

fro-noun

vultur oblique singular, m (oblique plural vulturs, nominative singular vulturs, nominative plural vultur)

vultur oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
vulturs (oblique plural)
vulturs (nominative singular)
vultur (nominative plural)


safran

safran oblique singular, m (oblique plural safrans, nominative singular safrans, nominative plural safran)

safran oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
safrans (oblique plural)
safrans (nominative singular)
safran (nominative plural)

French: safran

Norman: safran

→ Breton: safron

→ Middle Dutch: saffraen, soffraen

Dutch: saffraan

Afrikaans: saffraan

desctree

→ Middle English: saffron
English: saffron
→ Japanese: サフラン (safuran)
→ Korean: 사프란 (sapeuran)
Scots: sefron

→ Middle High German: saffrān

German: Safran

Luxembourgish: safran

Yiddish: זאַפֿראַן (zafran)

From Medieval Latin safranum, from Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān).


corf

fro-noun

corf oblique singular, m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural corf)

corf oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cors (oblique plural)
cors (nominative singular)
corf (nominative plural)

From Vulgar Latin *corbus < Classical Latin corvus.


raie

raie oblique singular, f (oblique plural raies, nominative singular raie, nominative plural raies)

raie oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
raies (oblique plural)
raie (nominative singular)
raies (nominative plural)

English ray

French: raie

Norman: raie (Jersey)

First attested circa 1155, from Latin raia.


faisan

faisan oblique singular, m (oblique plural faisans, nominative singular faisans, nominative plural faisan)

faisan oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
faisans (oblique plural)
faisans (nominative singular)
faisan (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: faisan
French: faisan
→ Romanian: fazan
Norman: faîsan (Jersey)

→ Middle English: fesaunt, fesant, fesaun, fesawant, feysan, feysaunt, ffesand, ffesaunt, ffeysaunt, phesant
English: pheasant
→ Welsh: ffesant
→ Cornish: fesont
Scots: pheasant

→ Old Leonese:

Asturian: faisán

→ Middle Dutch: faisant, fasaen

Dutch: fazant, faisant, fasant (obsolete)
Afrikaans: fisant

→ Old Galician-Portuguese:

Galician: faisán

Portuguese: faisão

→ Old Spanish: faysan

→ Spanish: faisán
→ Tagalog: paysan

Inherited from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φασιανός (phasianós).
The expected from would be *faisain, *feisain; the form in -an is probably influenced by Old Occitan faisan or by the word's Latin etymon.


moton

fro-noun

moton oblique singular, m (oblique plural motons, nominative singular motons, nominative plural moton)

moton oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
motons (oblique plural)
motons (nominative singular)
moton (nominative plural)


cisne

cisne oblique singular, m (oblique plural cisnes, nominative singular cisnes, nominative plural cisne)

cisne oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cisnes (oblique plural)
cisnes (nominative singular)
cisne (nominative plural)

From Late Latin cicinus, from Latin cycnus, from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kúknos, “swan”).


pome

pome oblique singular, f (oblique plural pomes, nominative singular pome, nominative plural pomes)

pome oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
pomes (oblique plural)
pome (nominative singular)
pomes (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: pome

Champenois: pomme

French: pomme (see there for further descendants)

Franc-Comtois: pamme

desc

Norman: paomme, pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental Norman), pum (Sark), poume, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), pum (Sark), pum, paomme (Guernsey), pomme, poumme (Jersey), poume (continental Norman)

Picard: peimme

Poitevin-Saintongeais: poume

Walloon: peme

desctree

→ Middle English: pome, pomme, poume, pumpe, pompy
English: pome

From Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular.


mul

fro-noun

mul oblique singular, m (oblique plural mus or muls, nominative singular mus or muls, nominative plural mul)

mul oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
mus (oblique plural)
muls (oblique plural)
mus (nominative singular)
muls (nominative singular)
mul (nominative plural)


oisel

oisel oblique singular, m (oblique plural oiseaus or oiseax or oisiaus or oisiax or oisels, nominative singular oiseaus or oiseax or oisiaus or oisiax or oisels, nominative plural oisel)

oisel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
oiseaus (oblique plural)
oiseax (oblique plural)
oisiaus (oblique plural)
oisiax (oblique plural)
oisels (oblique plural)
oiseaus (nominative singular)
oiseax (nominative singular)
oisiaus (nominative singular)
oisiax (nominative singular)
oisels (nominative singular)
oisel (nominative plural)

Angevin: oisiau

Bourbonnais-Berrichon: oisiau

Bourguignon: ouseâ

Champenois: ôgé

Franc-Comtois: ôsé

French: oiseau

Gallo: ouézai

Lorrain: ougeil, ougé (Barrois)

Norman: ouaîsé, ouésé, ouaîthé, weze

Poitevin-Saintongeais: osea

Picard: oisieu

Walloon: oujhea

Si voustre oysel est glettous [...].

2009, Tony Hunt, Three Anglo-Norman Treatises on Falconry:


coc

coc oblique singular, m (oblique plural cos, nominative singular cos, nominative plural coc)

coc oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cos (oblique plural)
cos (nominative singular)
coc (nominative plural)

Middle French: coq

French: coq

Walloon: cocq, cok, kok

From Late Latin coccus (attested in the Salic Laws), from Frankish *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz, ultimately of imitative origin. More at cock.

onomatopoeic

imitative


mave

fro-noun

mave oblique singular, f (oblique plural maves, nominative singular mave, nominative plural maves)

mave oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
maves (oblique plural)
mave (nominative singular)
maves (nominative plural)


chesne

chesne oblique singular, m (oblique plural chesnes, nominative singular chesnes, nominative plural chesne)

chesne oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chesnes (oblique plural)
chesnes (nominative singular)
chesne (nominative plural)

Middle French: chesne

French: chêne

From Vulgar Latin *cassanus (attested in Medieval Latin as casnus), probably from Gaulish kassanos. Some forms possibly influenced by fraisne, fresne. Compare Occitan casse.


fraisne

fraisne oblique singular, m (oblique plural fraisnes, nominative singular fraisnes, nominative plural fraisne)

fraisne oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
fraisnes (oblique plural)
fraisnes (nominative singular)
fraisne (nominative plural)

Angevin: frêne, fragne

Bourguignon: fraigne, fragne

Lorrain: frâne

Middle French: fresne
French: frêne

Norman: frêne, frêine

Walloon: frinne

[ˈfɾɛɦ.nə ~ ˈfɾɛː.nə]


perdriz

perdriz oblique singular, f (oblique plural perdriz, nominative singular perdriz, nominative plural perdriz)

perdriz oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
perdriz (oblique plural)
perdriz (nominative singular)
perdriz (nominative plural)

French: perdrix

Norman: pèrdrix

Walloon: pietri

→ Middle Dutch: partrise, patrise

Dutch: patrijs (see there for further descendants)

→ Middle English: partrich (see there for further descendants)

From Latin perdīx, perdīcem (“partridge”), from Ancient Greek πέρδιξ (pérdix, “partridge”).


asne

fro-noun

asne oblique singular, m (oblique plural asnes, nominative singular asnes, nominative plural asne)

asne oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
asnes (oblique plural)
asnes (nominative singular)
asne (nominative plural)

Middle French: asne
French: âne

Norman: âne

Walloon: ågne

→ Old Norse: asni (see there for further descendants)


palefreid

palefreid oblique singular, m (oblique plural palefreiz or palefreitz, nominative singular palefreiz or palefreitz, nominative plural palefreid)

palefreid oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
palefreiz (oblique plural)
palefreitz (oblique plural)
palefreiz (nominative singular)
palefreitz (nominative singular)
palefreid (nominative plural)

→ Middle Dutch: palefroot

Dutch: palefroot

desctree

→ Middle English: palfrey
English: palfrey

Middle French: palefroy
French: palefroi

Inherited from Late Latin paraverēdus. See there for more.

Richement atorné, sor noble palefrei


ceval

fro-noun

ceval oblique singular, m (oblique plural cevaus or cevax or cevals, nominative singular cevaus or cevax or cevals, nominative plural ceval)

ceval oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cevaus (oblique plural)
cevax (oblique plural)
cevals (oblique plural)
cevaus (nominative singular)
cevax (nominative singular)
cevals (nominative singular)
ceval (nominative plural)


olifan

olifan oblique singular, m (oblique plural olifans, nominative singular olifans, nominative plural olifan)

olifan oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
olifans (oblique plural)
olifans (nominative singular)
olifan (nominative plural)

Middle French: olifant

French: olifant

→ Catalan: olifant

→ Finnish: olifantti

→ Norwegian: olifant

→ Portuguese: olifante

Walloon: elefant

→ Breton: olifant

→ Middle Dutch: olifant

desctree

Dutch: olifant
Afrikaans: olifant
→ Papiamentu: olefante, olifant

→ Middle English: olifant, olifaunt, oliphant, olyphant (from olifan, olifant form)
English: oliphant, olifant, olyfaunte, olyphant, oliphaunt
→ Cornish: olifans

→ Middle English: elefant, elefaunt (from elefan, elefant form)

English: elephant
→ Hawaiian: ʻelepani
→ Maori: arewhana
→ Tokelauan: elefane
→ Tongan: ʻelefanite
→ Welsh: eliffant

Scots: elephant

→ Manx: elefant

→ Middle Irish: elifaint

Irish: eilifint

Scottish Gaelic: ailbhean

→ Old Spanish: elifant, alefant, eleofant
Ladino: איליפ׳אנטי (elefante)
Spanish: elefante
→ Basque: elefante
→ Chol: elefanti
→ Cebuano: elepante
→ Hiligaynon: elepante
→ Quechua: ilijanti
→ Tagalog: elepante
→ Waray-Waray: elepante


cigne

fro-noun

cigne oblique singular, m (oblique plural cignes, nominative singular cignes, nominative plural cigne)

cigne oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cignes (oblique plural)
cignes (nominative singular)
cigne (nominative plural)

French: cygne


heiron

heiron oblique singular, m (oblique plural heirons, nominative singular heirons, nominative plural heiron)

heiron oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
heirons (oblique plural)
heirons (nominative singular)
heiron (nominative plural)

Bourbonnais-Berrichon: aigron, hégron (Bourbonnais), aigueron, aigron (Berrichon)

Franc-Comtois: âron

desctree

Middle French: heron, hairon
French: héron

Gallo: aégron

Picard: hérôn, éron (Athois)

Poitevin-Saintongeais: égrun, égroun

Walloon: éron (Forrières)

→ Middle English: heron, hayroun, heern, heiron, herne, heroun, herowne, heyrone, heyroun, heyrune
English: heron, hern
Scots: hern

From Medieval Latin hairō, *haigrō, from Frankish *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *hraigrô (“heron”).


bievre

fro-noun

bievre oblique singular, m (oblique plural bievres, nominative singular bievres, nominative plural bievre)

bievre oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
bievres (oblique plural)
bievres (nominative singular)
bievre (nominative plural)

Middle French: bievre

French: bièvre (archaic or dialectal)

From Latin beber, of Germanic or Celtic origin, both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus (“beaver”). Akin to Old High German bibar (German Biber (“beaver”)), Middle Dutch bēver (Dutch bever (“beaver”)), Old English befer (“beaver”). More at beaver.


egle

egle oblique singular, m (oblique plural egles, nominative singular egles, nominative plural egle)

egle oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
egles (oblique plural)
egles (nominative singular)
egle (nominative plural)

desctree

→ Middle English: egle, agle, egel
English: eagle (see there for further descendants)
Scots: aigle

From Latin aquila, with a change of gender from feminine to masculine.


leun

fro-noun

leun oblique singular, m (oblique plural leuns, nominative singular leuns, nominative plural leun)

leun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
leuns (oblique plural)
leuns (nominative singular)
leun (nominative plural)


rosignol

rosignol oblique singular, m (oblique plural rosignous or rosignox or rosignols, nominative singular rosignous or rosignox or rosignols, nominative plural rosignol)

rosignol oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
rosignous (oblique plural)
rosignox (oblique plural)
rosignols (oblique plural)
rosignous (nominative singular)
rosignox (nominative singular)
rosignols (nominative singular)
rosignol (nominative plural)

French: rossignol


ostrige

ostrige oblique singular, f (oblique plural ostriges, nominative singular ostrige, nominative plural ostriges)

ostrige oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
ostriges (oblique plural)
ostrige (nominative singular)
ostriges (nominative plural)

→ English: ostrich

French: autruche

les testes saunz bacynetz covertz od chaplets od plumes de ostriges

[Their] heads without bascinets, covered with small hats made of ostrich plumes.


balaine

balaine oblique singular, f (oblique plural balaines, nominative singular balaine, nominative plural balaines)

balaine oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
balaines (oblique plural)
balaine (nominative singular)
balaines (nominative plural)

Qui t'engendra? — Uns galerous
— De que t'ot il? — D'une balaine

late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan de Berne”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 310, lines 157–8:

— Who is your father? — A walrus
— Who did he have you with? — A whale (Tristan is deliberately speaking nonsense in this passage in order to pass for a harmless madman)


esprevier

esprevier oblique singular, m (oblique plural espreviers, nominative singular espreviers, nominative plural esprevier)

esprevier oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
espreviers (oblique plural)
espreviers (nominative singular)
esprevier (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: esprevier
French: épervier

→ Middle English: sperver, sparver, sparvour, spavore, spervere, sprever, sprevere
English: sparver (obsolete)

From Old Dutch *sparwari (“sparrowhawk”), from Frankish *sparwarī (“sparrowhawk”).


buef

fro-noun

buef oblique singular, m (oblique plural bués, nominative singular bués, nominative plural buef)

buef oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
bués (oblique plural)
bués (nominative singular)
buef (nominative plural)

Middle French: bœuf

French: bœuf

desctree

→ Middle English: bef, beef, bouf, beof, buf, boef, bief, beffe, befe
English: beef (see there for further descendants)
Scots: beef

From Latin bovem. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese boi and Old Spanish buey.


gupil

fro-noun

gupil oblique singular, m (oblique plural gupiz or gupilz, nominative singular gupiz or gupilz, nominative plural gupil)

gupil oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
gupiz (oblique plural)
gupilz (oblique plural)
gupiz (nominative singular)
gupilz (nominative singular)
gupil (nominative plural)


aignel

aignel oblique singular, m (oblique plural aigneaus or aigneax or aigniaus or aigniax or aignels, nominative singular aigneaus or aigneax or aigniaus or aigniax or aignels, nominative plural aignel)

aignel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
aigneaus (oblique plural)
aigneax (oblique plural)
aigniaus (oblique plural)
aigniax (oblique plural)
aignels (oblique plural)
aigneaus (nominative singular)
aigneax (nominative singular)
aigniaus (nominative singular)
aigniax (nominative singular)
aignels (nominative singular)
aignel (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: aigneâ

Champenois: angné

Franc-Comtois: aigné

French: agneau

Gallo: agnë

Norman: angné

Picard: aigneu

Poitevin-Saintongeais: agna, egna

Walloon: agnea

From Latin agnellus, possibly an early borrowing.


chievre

chievre oblique singular, f (oblique plural chievres, nominative singular chievre, nominative plural chievres)

chievre oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
chievres (oblique plural)
chievre (nominative singular)
chievres (nominative plural)

Middle French: chevre

→ English: chèvre

French: chèvre

Norman: quièvre

Walloon: tchive


falcun

falcun oblique singular, m (oblique plural falcuns, nominative singular falcuns, nominative plural falcun)

falcun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
falcuns (oblique plural)
falcuns (nominative singular)
falcun (nominative plural)

Plus est isnels que nen est uns falcuns.

c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of faucon (falcon)


chamel

chamel oblique singular, m (oblique plural chameaus or chameax or chamiaus or chamiax or chamels, nominative singular chameaus or chameax or chamiaus or chamiax or chamels, nominative plural chamel)

chamel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
chameaus (oblique plural)
chameax (oblique plural)
chamiaus (oblique plural)
chamiax (oblique plural)
chamels (oblique plural)
chameaus (nominative singular)
chameax (nominative singular)
chamiaus (nominative singular)
chamiax (nominative singular)
chamels (nominative singular)
chamel (nominative plural)

English: camel (through Anglo-Norman)

Middle French: chameau

French: chameau

From Vulgar Latin *camellus, a variant of Classical Latin camēlus.


escorpion

escorpion oblique singular, m (oblique plural escorpions, nominative singular escorpions, nominative plural escorpion)

escorpion oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
escorpions (oblique plural)
escorpions (nominative singular)
escorpion (nominative plural)


renart

renart oblique singular, m (oblique plural renarz or renartz, nominative singular renarz or renartz, nominative plural renart)

renart oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
renarz (oblique plural)
renartz (oblique plural)
renarz (nominative singular)
renartz (nominative singular)
renart (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: rena

Champenois: renâd

Franc-Comtois: rnaid

French: renard

Norman: renard

Poitevin-Saintongeais: renard

Picard: àrnàr

Walloon: rinåd


maquerel

maquerel oblique singular, m (oblique plural maquereaus or maquereax or maqueriaus or maqueriax or maquerels, nominative singular maquereaus or maquereax or maqueriaus or maqueriax or maquerels, nominative plural maquerel)

maquerel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
maquereaus (oblique plural)
maquereax (oblique plural)
maqueriaus (oblique plural)
maqueriax (oblique plural)
maquerels (oblique plural)
maquereaus (nominative singular)
maquereax (nominative singular)
maqueriaus (nominative singular)
maqueriax (nominative singular)
maquerels (nominative singular)
maquerel (nominative plural)

→ English: mackerel

French: maquereau

→ Middle Dutch: makereel

desctree

Dutch: makreel
→ Norwegian Bokmål: makrell

Norman: maqu'sé (Jersey)

Uncertain, possibly from a derivative of Latin macula (“stain, spot”), referring to the skin. Connections with maquereau (“pimp”) are dubious.


fau

Franc-Comtois: fô

Gallo: faeu

Norman: fau (Jersey)


veltre

fro-noun

veltre oblique singular, m (oblique plural veltres, nominative singular veltres, nominative plural veltre)

veltre oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
veltres (oblique plural)
veltres (nominative singular)
veltre (nominative plural)


berbiz

berbiz oblique singular, f (oblique plural berbiz, nominative singular berbiz, nominative plural berbiz)

berbiz oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
berbiz (oblique plural)
berbiz (nominative singular)
berbiz (nominative plural)

French: brebis

Norman: brébis

Walloon: berbis

From Vulgar Latin *berbix, berbicem, from Late Latin berbēx, berbēcis, from Latin vervēx (“wether”).


russignol

russignol oblique singular, m (oblique plural russignous or russignox or russignols, nominative singular russignous or russignox or russignols, nominative plural russignol)

russignol oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
russignous (oblique plural)
russignox (oblique plural)
russignols (oblique plural)
russignous (nominative singular)
russignox (nominative singular)
russignols (nominative singular)
russignol (nominative plural)


mutun

mutun oblique singular, m (oblique plural mutuns, nominative singular mutuns, nominative plural mutun)

mutun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
mutuns (oblique plural)
mutuns (nominative singular)
mutun (nominative plural)


plovier

plovier oblique singular, m (oblique plural ploviers, nominative singular ploviers, nominative plural plovier)

plovier oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
ploviers (oblique plural)
ploviers (nominative singular)
plovier (nominative plural)

French: pluvier

→ Middle Dutch: pluvier

Dutch: plevier

desctree

→ Middle English: plover, plewer, pluver, pluwer, plovere, ploware, plowere (Late Middle English)
English: plover
Scots: pliver, plivver

From Medieval Latin pluviārius, probably from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Qui de l'alete d'un plovier
Peissoit sor son poing l'esprevier

c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:


hyene

fro-noun

hyene oblique singular, f (oblique plural hyenes, nominative singular hyene, nominative plural hyenes)

hyene oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
hyenes (oblique plural)
hyene (nominative singular)
hyenes (nominative plural)

From Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina, “hyena or hyaena”), from ὗς (hûs, “pig or swine”) with -αινα (-aina).

der

HYENE signefie, ne lerrai ne l' vus die,
Hume aver cuveitus, ki est luxurius;

c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, lines 581–2:


berbis

fro-noun

berbis oblique singular, f (oblique plural berbis, nominative singular berbis, nominative plural berbis)

berbis oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
berbis (oblique plural)
berbis (nominative singular)
berbis (nominative plural)


connil

connil oblique singular, m (oblique plural conniz or connilz, nominative singular conniz or connilz, nominative plural connil)

connil oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
conniz (oblique plural)
connilz (oblique plural)
conniz (nominative singular)
connilz (nominative singular)
connil (nominative plural)

French: connil, connin (dated, literary)

→ Alemannic German: Chüngel

→ Cornish: konin

→ Irish: coinín

→ Manx: conning

→ Middle Dutch: conin, conijn

Dutch: konijn (see there for further descendants)

Limburgish: knien

West Flemish: konyn

desctree

→ Middle English: coni, konyng, conynge, cunning, conig, cony, conyne, konyn
English: cony, coney, cunny, connie
Scots: kinnen, kyunnen, connie
→ Middle Welsh: cwning
Welsh: cwning, cwnig

→ Middle Low German: kanīn

German Low German: Kanien

→ Danish: kanin

→ Faroese: kanin

→ German: Kanin

→ Icelandic: kanína

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kanin

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kanin

→ Swedish: kanin
→ Finnish: kaniini, kani

→ Rhine Franconian: Kning

→ West Frisian: knyn

desc

⇒ Middle Low German: kanīnken, kanīneken

German Low German: Kninken, Kanickelgen, Karnickelgen

→ German: Karnickel

→ German: Kaninchen
→ Romansch: canign

→ Luxembourgish: Kanéngchen

→ Scottish Gaelic: coineanach


cocombre

fro-noun

cocombre oblique singular, f (oblique plural cocombres, nominative singular cocombre, nominative plural cocombres)

cocombre oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
cocombres (oblique plural)
cocombre (nominative singular)
cocombres (nominative plural)

Middle French: coucombre

French: concombre

desctree

→ Middle English: cucumer, cucumber, cucumbre, kykombre
English: cucumber
Tok Pisin: kukamba
→ Cherokee: ᎦᎦᎹ (gagama)
→ Plains Cree: kohkompaninawak
→ Spanish: cacombra
→ Welsh: ciwcymbr
→ Zulu: îkhukhámba

Norman: cocombre (Jersey)

From Latin cucumis, cucumerem, probably through the intermediate of Old Occitan.


pyjon

fro-noun

pyjon oblique singular, m (oblique plural pyjons, nominative singular pyjons, nominative plural pyjon)

pyjon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
pyjons (oblique plural)
pyjons (nominative singular)
pyjon (nominative plural)

Franc-Comtois: pindjon

French: pigeon

Norman: pigeon

Picard: penjon

desctree

→ Middle English: pygeoun
English: pigeon
Scots: pigeon


mallart

fro-noun

mallart oblique singular, m (oblique plural mallarz or mallartz, nominative singular mallarz or mallartz, nominative plural mallart)

mallart oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
mallarz (oblique plural)
mallartz (oblique plural)
mallarz (nominative singular)
mallartz (nominative singular)
mallart (nominative plural)

desc

→ Middle English: malard, mawlard, mawdelard

English: mallard

From masle (“male”) + -art, possibly through or influenced by Medieval Latin mallardus.


lymon

fro-noun

lymon oblique singular, m (oblique plural lymons, nominative singular lymons, nominative plural lymon)

lymon oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
lymons (oblique plural)
lymons (nominative singular)
lymon (nominative plural)

desctree

→ Middle English: lymon
English: lemon
Scots: leemon

From Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn), from Persian لیمو (limu).


heriçun

fro-noun

heriçun oblique singular, m (oblique plural heriçuns, nominative singular heriçuns, nominative plural heriçun)

heriçun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
heriçuns (oblique plural)
heriçuns (nominative singular)
heriçun (nominative plural)

French: hérisson
→ English: herisson

Norman: hérisson

desctree

→ Middle English: yrchoun
English: urchin
Scots: hurcheon

From Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ērīcius. Or the augmentative of an unattested *eriz.


escurel

fro-noun

escurel oblique singular, m (oblique plural escureaus or escureax or escuriaus or escuriax or escurels, nominative singular escureaus or escureax or escuriaus or escuriax or escurels, nominative plural escurel)

escurel oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
escureaus (oblique plural)
escureax (oblique plural)
escuriaus (oblique plural)
escuriax (oblique plural)
escurels (oblique plural)
escureaus (nominative singular)
escureax (nominative singular)
escuriaus (nominative singular)
escuriax (nominative singular)
escurels (nominative singular)
escurel (nominative plural)

→ English: squirrel

French: écureuil

Vulgar Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Classical Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros).


cocodril

cocodril oblique singular, m (oblique plural cocodriz or cocodrilz, nominative singular cocodriz or cocodrilz, nominative plural cocodril)

cocodril oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
cocodriz (oblique plural)
cocodrilz (oblique plural)
cocodriz (nominative singular)
cocodrilz (nominative singular)
cocodril (nominative plural)

Norman: crocodile

desc

→ Middle English: cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril

desctree

English: crocodile
→ Maori: kokorotaera, karakotaera
→ Niuean: kirokotaili
→ Tokelauan: kolokotaila
→ Tongan: kalokataile
→ Welsh: crocodeil

Scots: cocadrille, cokadraill


souriz

fro-noun

souriz oblique singular, f (oblique plural souriz, nominative singular souriz, nominative plural souriz)

souriz oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
souriz (oblique plural)
souriz (nominative singular)
souriz (nominative plural)


musche

musche oblique singular, f (oblique plural musches, nominative singular musche, nominative plural musches)

musche oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
musches (oblique plural)
musche (nominative singular)
musches (nominative plural)

Middle French: mousche

French: mouche

Norman: moûque

Walloon: moxhe


wespe

wespe oblique singular, f (oblique plural wespes, nominative singular wespe, nominative plural wespes)

wespe oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
wespes (oblique plural)
wespe (nominative singular)
wespes (nominative plural)

(Old Northern French) Alternative form of guespe


quaille

quaille oblique singular, f (oblique plural quailles, nominative singular quaille, nominative plural quailles)

quaille oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
quailles (oblique plural)
quaille (nominative singular)
quailles (nominative plural)

Champenois: caille

→ English: quail

French: caille


pierke

pierke oblique singular, f (oblique plural pierkes, nominative singular pierke, nominative plural pierkes)

pierke oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
pierkes (oblique plural)
pierke (nominative singular)
pierkes (nominative plural)

French: perche

English: perch

Inherited from Latin perca. A northern form; standard Old French form is perche.


tenche

tenche oblique singular, f (oblique plural tenches, nominative singular tenche, nominative plural tenches)

tenche oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
tenches (oblique plural)
tenche (nominative singular)
tenches (nominative plural)

→ English: tench

French: tanche


leisarde

leisarde oblique singular, f (oblique plural leisardes, nominative singular leisarde, nominative plural leisardes)

leisarde oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
leisardes (oblique plural)
leisarde (nominative singular)
leisardes (nominative plural)


lesart

lesart oblique singular, m (oblique plural lesarz or lesartz, nominative singular lesarz or lesartz, nominative plural lesart)

lesart oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
lesarz (oblique plural)
lesartz (oblique plural)
lesarz (nominative singular)
lesartz (nominative singular)
lesart (nominative plural)

13th century, apparently a masculine form of leisarde under the influence of Latin lacertus.


wecle

wecle oblique singular, f (oblique plural wecles, nominative singular wecle, nominative plural wecles)

wecle oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
wecles (oblique plural)
wecle (nominative singular)
wecles (nominative plural)


falcoun

falcoun oblique singular, m (oblique plural falcouns, nominative singular falcouns, nominative plural falcoun)

falcoun oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
falcouns (oblique plural)
falcouns (nominative singular)
falcoun (nominative plural)


moette

moette oblique singular, f (oblique plural moettes, nominative singular moette, nominative plural moettes)

moette oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
moettes (oblique plural)
moette (nominative singular)
moettes (nominative plural)


pumer

pumer oblique singular, m (oblique plural pumers, nominative singular pumers, nominative plural pumer)

pumer oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
pumers (oblique plural)
pumers (nominative singular)
pumer (nominative plural)


gopil

gopil oblique singular, m (oblique plural gopiz or gopilz, nominative singular gopiz or gopilz, nominative plural gopil)

gopil oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
gopiz (oblique plural)
gopilz (oblique plural)
gopiz (nominative singular)
gopilz (nominative singular)
gopil (nominative plural)

French: goupil


voutoir

voutoir oblique singular, m (oblique plural voutoirs, nominative singular voutoirs, nominative plural voutoir)

voutoir oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
voutoirs (oblique plural)
voutoirs (nominative singular)
voutoir (nominative plural)


eschaloigne

eschaloigne oblique singular, f (oblique plural eschaloignes, nominative singular eschaloigne, nominative plural eschaloignes)

eschaloigne oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
eschaloignes (oblique plural)
eschaloigne (nominative singular)
eschaloignes (nominative plural)

desctree

French: échalote, échalotte
→ English: shallot
→ German: Schalotte
→ Romanian: șalotă
→ Portuguese: chalota
→ Spanish: chalote, chalota

→ Middle English: scaloun, scalan, scalon, scalyon, scalyone, skalon
English: scallion
Scots: scallion

→ Medieval Latin: scalongia, escalonia

→? Spanish: escalonia, escaloña

From Latin ascalōnia (cēpa) (literally “onion of Ascalon”).

inh

Allium cepa var. aggregatum
Allium cepa var. aggregatum


mauvis

fro-noun

mauvis oblique singular, m (oblique plural mauvis, nominative singular mauvis, nominative plural mauvis)

mauvis oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
mauvis (oblique plural)
mauvis (nominative singular)
mauvis (nominative plural)

→ English: mavis, Mavis

French: mauvis

Italian: malvizzo

From older malvis, possibly related to mave, mauve (“gull”), borrowed from Old English mæw.


orenge

orenge oblique singular, f (oblique plural orenges, nominative singular orenge, nominative plural orenges)

orenge oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
orenges (oblique plural)
orenge (nominative singular)
orenges (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: orange, orenge
French: orange (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle English: orenge, arange, araunge, orange, orynge
English: orange
→ Esperanto: oranĝo
→ Japanese: オレンジ (orenji)
→ Kashubian: orendż (Canada, United States)
→ Korean: 오렌지 (orenji)
→ Makah: ʔo·linčas
→ Malay: oren
→ Marshallese: oran
Scots: orange, oranger

Norman: orange


codoin

fro-noun

codoin oblique singular, m (oblique plural codoinz, nominative singular codoinz, nominative plural codoin)

codoin oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
codoinz (oblique plural)
codoinz (nominative singular)
codoin (nominative plural)

French: coing

desctree

→ Middle English: coyn, coing, coigne, quoyne, quyn
Scots: coyne (obsolete)
→ Irish: cainche
⇒ Middle English: quynce, quyns, qwince, quince, quence, qwyns, coynce
English: quince
→ Thai: ควินซ์ (kwíns)
→ Welsh: cwins
Scots: quince

From Latin cotōneum, from Ancient Greek κυδώνιον (kudṓnion). Cognate with Occitan codonh, codoing and Italian cotogna.

Cooinz, permeins, pesches e fies
E alemandes e alies
E autres fruiz assez plusurs,
Ki jettent les bones flairurs.

c. 1150 CE, Guillaume de Berneville, La vie de saint Gilles, lines 1925-1929:

Quinces, pears, peaches, and figs,
And almonds, and whitebeam berries,
And a great many other fruits,
 which the good flowers produce.


polain

fro-noun

polain oblique singular, m (oblique plural polainz, nominative singular polainz, nominative plural polain)

polain oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
polainz (oblique plural)
polainz (nominative singular)
polain (nominative plural)

Anglo-Norman: pulain

→ English: pullen

→ English: Pulliam

French: poulain

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin pullāmen, from Latin pullus (“animal young”).

a metonymic occupational name for a horsebreeder


andoille

andoille oblique singular, f (oblique plural andoilles, nominative singular andoille, nominative plural andoilles)

andoille oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
andoilles (oblique plural)
andoille (nominative singular)
andoilles (nominative plural)

French: andouille (see there for further descendants)

→ France:

Breton: anduillenn

Occitan: andolha

→ Spanish: andullo

→ Iberia:

Basque: andoil

Galician: androlla

Leonese: andolla

→ Italy:

Corsican: anduglia

Neapolitan: nnoglia

Romagnol: nduglia

desctree

Sicilian: 'nduja, nugghia, nduglia
→ English: nduja
→ Italian: 'nduja

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin inductilis.


consolde

fro-noun

consolde oblique singular, f (oblique plural consoldes, nominative singular consolde, nominative plural consoldes)

consolde oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
consoldes (oblique plural)
consolde (nominative singular)
consoldes (nominative plural)

Middle French: consolide

French: consoude

desctree

→ Old English: consolde
Middle English: consoude, consowde, consol, consold, consaud, consaude
English: consound

Inherited from Latin cōnsolida (“common comfrey”), so called because of its supposed healing power.