User:Mglovesfun/to do/Middle French

This page is a list of Middle French terms used in etymologies on the English Wiktionary in the form {{term|...|lang=frm}}. It was originally compiled by TheDaveRoss (thank you) but is now updated by hand. Please DO add more terms which are used in etymologies, please DO NOT add miscellaneous requests, use WT:RE:frm for that.

Best sources:

• Google Books in French limited to hits from 1340 to 1609. Primary material only
• Godefroy AKA {{R:Godefroy}}
• Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales AKA {{R:TLFi|etym=1}}

Non-letter

1. -el (-let)
2. -quin (-quin)

A

1. amadou (amadou)
2. ambassée (embassy)
3. ample (ample)

B

1. bievre (bièvre)
2. boel (bowel)
3. bougeon (bludgeon) - Google Books and Godefroy don't have this. Closest seems to be boujon. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:41, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
4. briquet (briquet)

C

1. cardon (cardoon)
2. carousser (carouse) - best I can find is carous in Rabelais, apparently meaning 'excessive drinking' (the citation it appears in is very short and therefore ambiguous). Renard Migrant (talk) 20:42, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
3. cauteriser (cauterize) - Google Books has for some reason started to let me down. I cited it as Old French, albeit late Old French. Renard Migrant (talk) 00:52, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
4. cordon bleu (blue ribbon)

D

1. deprecation (deprecation)
2. dividende (dividend) http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/dividende says 1555 math which isn't really enough for me to define it. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

E

1. économiste (economist) - conflicting sources, some sources say not attested until 1767. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
2. esquiver (esquiver) - this meets CFI as http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/esquiver lists it as 1600, just I'd like to see the citation with my own eyes first, and I can't find it. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

F

1. filz a putain (fils de pute)
2. flot (flot)
3. foule (foule)
4. fourban (forban)
5. fromenté (furmint) - can't find this at all, perhaps a mistake. Renard Migrant (talk) 23:27, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I

i and j are both used to represent the consonant j in Middle French

J

i and j are both used to represent the consonant in Middle French

L

1. lanier (lanner falcon) - I can't find this to mean "cowardly". Renard Migrant (talk) 12:43, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

M

1. macquiller (maquiller)
2. median (median)
3. muse (muse)

T

1. tavaiolle (tavaïolle)