Wiktionary:Requested entries (Old French)

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A

• atamer
• abandon, à ban doner , bandun - all related to abandoner (“to abandon”)
• abanduner - from abandun
• ablatif
• abominable - etymon of French and English abominable
• aboner - subscribe?
• acent
• afaitier, loads of meanings. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:15, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
• agu
• ajorner - postpone? also the phrase a jorn (nome) (“to an (appointed) day”) / or is it a jor nomé? French entry for "ajourner" and English entry "adjourn" have different spellings in their etymologies.
• amordre, does not seem to exist in Modern French. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:06, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
• arquiere - shooting range?
• ausent - absent?
• ajurie - see jury

B

• bandun - from abandun
• bodne
• bufe (noun). Mglovesfun (talk) 11:48, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
• bord - from bord
• bombace - etymon of English bombast

C

• Cemaine - from the etymology of Maine
• champcheu, seems to be from champ (“field”) +‎ cheu (“fallen”). Seems to be a criminal of some kind: Est il murtriers ou chanpcheüz (Lancelot ou le chevalier de la charrette, murtrier is murderer). Godefroy lists but without a definition that works in this context IMO. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:56, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
• constitucion
• conopé, conope - etymons of French canapé

D

ditz "...mes les ditz chanceller et tresorer...

E

• einz, "einz me sivrez a pié et nue" (Chrétien de Troyes). I can't decide what meaning of ainz/einz this is. The Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub lists those. I want to say it means thus or so but it's not listed as a meaning under any variant I can see. Perhaps it's before (I'd need to look up more lines from that poem to confirm or semi-confirm it). Renard Migrant (talk) 16:50, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
• error. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:25, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
• escillier. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:54, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

  Something like destroy, wreck, ruin, etc. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

• estendu, as in 'cousin estendu' which I assume means 'distant cousin'. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:12, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

F

• fumoterre, no clue, it does seem to refer to smoke (fum) and land (terre) but beyond that? Also, is it attested outside of Lilium medicine by Bernard de Gordon? Renard Migrant (talk) 13:21, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

  I guess it means fumitory (French: fumeterre). Renard Migrant (talk) 17:42, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

• forme
• Freiier, see fray. I want to find my freiier!!

G

• greille, graïlle, gradilie - etymons of French grille

H

• huron - as mentioned in the etymologies of Huron, on Wikipedia, on French Wiktionary, and in Frédéric Godefroy's dictionary

J

• jaj, Mglovesfun (talk) 15:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

L

• livel - level? In etymology of French "niveau".
• laton - see Icelandic látún

M

• mieudres (adverb) Mglovesfun (talk) 12:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
• mode

N

• nivel, nyviel, nevel - level? In etymology of French "niveau".

O

• -on
• obnuble

P

• preis - price

S

• signorie, English seigniory, French seigneurie. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:31, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
• sumundre

T

• temoir (“to fear”), descended from Latin timeō
• tirelire - see tirelire
• tron - throne?
• tysic