mégot
French edit
Etymology edit
Probably from regional mégauder (“to suckle”), from mégaud, from mègue (“whey”), from Vulgar Latin *mesga, from Gaulish (compare Old Irish medc (“whey”), Welsh maidd (“whey”), Cornish meith (“whey”)), from Proto-Celtic *mezgos (“whey”), from Proto-Indo-European *mesgos (“marrow”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mégot m (plural mégots)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mégot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.