trenchour
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Anglo-Norman trenchour; equivalent to trenchen + -our.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittrenchour (plural trenchours)
Descendants
edit- English: trencher
- → Welsh: trensiwr
- Yola: trenshoorès (plural)
References
edit- “trenchǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
editAlternative forms
editNoun
edittrenchour oblique singular, m (oblique plural trenchours, nominative singular trenchours, nominative plural trenchour)
- (Anglo-Norman) cutter (cutting tool)
- (Anglo-Norman) cutter (one who cuts)
Descendants
edit- French: tranchoir
- → Middle English: trenchour, trenchere, trencheour, trencheure, trenchore, trenchoure, trenchure, trenschoure
- English: trencher
- → Welsh: trensiwr
- Yola: trenshoorès (plural)
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trancheor)
- trenchour on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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- Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Middle English terms suffixed with -our
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- enm:Cutlery
- enm:Kitchenware
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
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