abateiz

Old French

Alternative forms

• abatëis (late)

Etymology

From abatre (“to cut down”) +‎ -eiz.

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /abatəˈits/
• (late) IPA^(key): /abat(ə)ˈis/

Noun

abateiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural abateiz, nominative singular abateiz, nominative plural abateiz)

1. massacre
2. place where trees are felled in a forest

Descendants

• French: abattis

References

• “abattis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 34.