amélanche
French edit
Etymology edit
From Southeastern Occitan amelanca, rebracketing with the article from melanco, containing an Ancient Ligurian suffix attached to a word for black cognate to Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”) and Latvian melns (“black”), calling the fruits by their colour.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
amélanche f (plural amélanches)
- fruit of any tree that is described under amélanchier (serviceberry).
References edit
- Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Amélanchier”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 56a
Further reading edit
- “amélanche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.