oistre

Middle English

Noun

oistre

1. Alternative form of oystre

Middle French

Etymology

Old French, borrowed from Latin ostrea.

Noun

oistre f (plural oistres)

1. oyster (mollusk)

Descendants

• French: huître
• Norman: hitre

Old French

Alternative forms

• ostre
• oyster
• oystre

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ostrea.

Noun

oistre oblique singular, f (oblique plural oistres, nominative singular oistre, nominative plural oistres)

1. oyster (mollusk)

Descendants

• Middle French: oistre
  • French: huître
  • Norman: hitre
• → Middle English: oystre, ostre, ostree, oistre, oystur, oystere, ostyr, oister, oyestere
  • English: oyster
  • Scots: oyster, eyster
• → Irish: oisre, oisir (Ulster); eisir, eistre, oisridh (obsolete)
• → Scottish Gaelic: oisir, eisir

Further reading

• oistre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Etymology and history of “huître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.