cucuault
Appearance
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cucu, cocu (“cuckoo”), ultimately imitative or from Latin cuculus, + the Frankish suffix *-wald, from *wald.
Noun
[edit]cucuault oblique singular, m (oblique plural cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative singular cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative plural cucuault)
- a cuckold
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (coucuol)