fueille

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium.

Noun

fueille oblique singular, f (oblique plural fueilles, nominative singular fueille, nominative plural fueilles)

1. leaf (of a plant)

Descendants

• Middle French: fueille, feuille
  • French: feuille
    • → Turkish: föy
  • → Middle English: foyle, ffoyl, foil, foile, foille, foylle, fule
    • English: foil
    • Scots: foilzie, foolyie
• Norman: fieille (Guernsey), fielle (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Walloon: foye