esprevier
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Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French esprevier.
Noun
[edit]esprevier m (plural espreviers)
Descendants
[edit]- French: épervier
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (espervier, supplement)
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Dutch *sparwari (“sparrowhawk”), from Frankish *sparwarī (“sparrowhawk”).
Noun
[edit]esprevier oblique singular, m (oblique plural espreviers, nominative singular espreviers, nominative plural esprevier)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: esprevier
- French: épervier
- → Middle English: sperver, sparver, sparvour, spavore, spervere, sprever, sprevere
- English: sparver (obsolete)
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (espervier, supplement)
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