fustaine

Old French

Alternative forms

• fustagne, fustaigne, fustaingne, fustane, fusteine

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Latin fūstāneum, ellipsis of (pannus) fustāneus or (tela) fustānea, probably from fūstis (“stick”) +‎ -āneus.

Noun

fustaine oblique singular, f (nominative singular fustaine)

1. A cotton fabric ancestral to modern fustian.

Descendants

• Middle French: fustaine, futaine
  • Bourguignon: fetaine, futaine, futainne
  • French: futaine
    • → Breton: futein
    • → Esperanto: fusteno (with influence from English)
      • Ido: fusteno
    • → Luxembourgish: Fitteng
    • → Occitan: futène
  • Franc-Comtois: feutaine, feutainne
  • Picard: futane
  • Walloon: futinne
  • → Middle Dutch: fustein
    • Dutch: fustein
• → Middle English: fustian, ffustean, ffusteyn, fostyon, fusten, fusteyn, fustyan, fustyane
  • English: fustian
  • ⇒ Scots: foustie
• → Old Norse: fustan