flamberge
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Etymology edit
From French.
Noun edit
flamberge (plural flamberges)
- (weaponry) A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.
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sword
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Etymology edit
(1180) From Old French froberge ("name of a sword") changed to "flamberge" with influence of flambe from Germanic *frōberga composed of the elements *frô (“man”) and bergan (“to protect”) from Proto-Germanic *berganą from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to take care of, protect, preserve”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flamberge f (plural flamberges)
Further reading edit
- “flamberge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- froberge in Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flamberge)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “frōberga”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 181