mesleiz
Old French
editEtymology
editFrom Vulgar Latin *misculātīcius, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre (“to mix”). By surface analysis, mesler + -ëiz. Rarer than the synonym meslee < *misculāta. An adjective *meslëiz may also have existed, only to be assimilated to the suffix -if, resulting in meslif (“quarrelsome”) (cf. massif < massiz).
Noun
editmesleiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural mesleiz, nominative singular mesleiz, nominative plural mesleiz)
References
edit- Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 32–33.