pont leveiz
(Redirected from pont levëiz)
Old French
editAlternative forms
edit- pont levëis (late)
Etymology
editFrom pont (“bridge”) + levëiz (“liftable”).
Noun
editpont leveiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural pont leveiz, nominative singular pont leveiz, nominative plural pont leveiz)
Descendants
edit- French: pont-levis
- → English: pontlevis
References
edit- Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 33.