cucuault

Old French

Alternative forms

• cocoualt

Etymology

From cucu, cocu (“cuckoo”), ultimately imitative or from Latin cuculus, + the Frankish suffix *-wald, from *wald.

Noun

cucuault oblique singular, m (oblique plural cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative singular cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative plural cucuault)

1. a cuckold

Descendants

• → Middle English: cokewold, cokewald, cukewald, cukeweld, cokwold
  • English: cuckold
• → Irish: cucól

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (coucuol)