ainçois
Middle French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAdverb
editainçois
- before (at a previous time)
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ainçois)
Old French
editAlternative forms
edit- aincois (manuscript form)
Etymology
editEither from Vulgar Latin *ante ipsum (literally "before the very same") or simply an emphatic form of Old French ainz, derived from *antius, from ante + -ius. According to Antion Thomas in Romania (number 14, 1885), the latter explanation is more likely, as ainz and ainçois have essentially the same function and sense in Old French.
Adverb
editainçois
- before (at a previous time)
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ainçois)