Talk:prouvaire

I can't see how this can be directly from prestre. Maybe from the same Latin root, but I'd have thought prestre would be attestable in Middle French too. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

see fr:prouvaire. Lmaltier 22:03, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, provoire does seem to mean priest, but I don't see that it's necessarily an inflected form of prestre. Can anyone cite this with evidence? Mglovesfun (talk) 22:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

This source show prestre and prestres, provoire and provoires which means it's unlikely they're the same word. They just seem to be synonyms. provoire(s) gets 11 hits on Wikisource, while prestre(s) gets 326. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:12, 27 October 2009 (UTC)