quenotte
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old Northern French cane (“jaw; tooth”) or Old Picard kenne (“jaw”), from Frankish *kinni, *kinnu (“cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“cheek, chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
quenotte f (plural quenottes)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “quenotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.