gaudine
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From gaut + -ine.[1] Cognate with English wold and weald.
Noun edit
gaudine oblique singular, f (oblique plural gaudines, nominative singular gaudine, nominative plural gaudines)
- woods (woodland area)
Related terms edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gaudine)
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “wald”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 486