codoin

Old French

Alternative forms

• cooing

Etymology

From Latin cotōneum, from Ancient Greek κυδώνιον (kudṓnion). Cognate with Occitan codonh, codoing and Italian cotogna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈðu(i̯)ɲ/

Noun

codoin oblique singular, m (oblique plural codoinz, nominative singular codoinz, nominative plural codoin)

1. quince
   • c. 1150 CE, Guillaume de Berneville, La vie de saint Gilles‎^[1], lines 1925-1929:

     Cooinz, permeins, pesches e fies
     E alemandes e alies
     E autres fruiz assez plusurs,
     Ki jettent les bones flairurs.

     Quinces, pears, peaches, and figs,
     And almonds, and whitebeam berries,
     And a great many other fruits,
     which the good flowers produce.

Descendants

• French: coing
• → Middle English: coyn, coing, coigne, quoyne, quyn
  • Scots: coyne (obsolete)
  • → Irish: cainche
  • ⇒ Middle English: quynce, quyns, qwince, quince, quence, qwyns, coynce
    • English: quince
      • → Thai: ควินซ์ (kwíns)
      • → Welsh: cwins
    • Scots: quince

References

• Etymology and history of “coing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.