cucuault
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom cucu, cocu (“cuckoo”), ultimately imitative or from Latin cuculus, + the Frankish suffix *-wald, from *wald.
Noun
editcucuault oblique singular, m (oblique plural cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative singular cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative plural cucuault)
- a cuckold
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (coucuol)