fouet
English
editNoun
editfouet (plural fouets)
French
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French fouet, diminutive in -et of Old French fou (“beech”), from Latin fagus.
Since the morpheme boundary was no longer felt in Middle French, [u.ɛ] was contracted to [wɛ] and this later developed regularly to [wa] (as it did in oi, oe). The contemporary pronunciation was reinforced by the spelling and the desire to distinguish from foi, foie and fois.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfouet m (plural fouets)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “fouet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
editEtymology
editFrom Old French fou (“beech”) + -et.
Noun
editfouet m (plural fouets)
Derived terms
edit- donner du fouet (“to lash”)
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