jangleor

Old French

Alternative forms

• gangleür
• jangleu, jangleür, jeinglour
• jogleor

Etymology

From Latin iocor, ioculor (“to joke, to jest”).

Noun

jangleor oblique singular, m (oblique plural jangleors, nominative singular janglere, nominative plural jangleor)

1. jongleur; raconteur; storyteller
2. (by extension) a liar

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: jogelour, jugelur
  • → Middle English: jogeler, jogelour, iogular (partly; also continuing Old English ġeogolere (“wizard”))
    • English: juggler
• French: jongleur
  • → Czech: žonglér
  • → Danish: jonglør
  • → Dutch: jongleur
  • → English: jongleur
  • → German: Jongleur
  • → Hungarian: zsonglőr
  • → Polish: żongler
  • → Romanian: jongler
  • → Russian: жонглёр (žongljór) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: žònglēr, жо̀нгле̄р
  • → Slovak: žonglér