oistre
Middle English edit
Noun edit
oistre
- Alternative form of oystre
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
Old French, borrowed from Latin ostrea.
Noun edit
oistre f (plural oistres)
- oyster (mollusk)
Descendants edit
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
oistre oblique singular, f (oblique plural oistres, nominative singular oistre, nominative plural oistres)
- oyster (mollusk)
Descendants edit
- Middle French: oistre
- → Middle English: oystre, ostre, ostree, oistre, oystur, oystere, ostyr, oister, oyestere
- → Irish: oisre, oisir; eisir, eistre, oisridh
- → Scottish Gaelic: oisir, eisir
Further reading edit
- oistre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Etymology and history of “huître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.