mésange
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French mésange, from Old French mesenge, masenge (“titmouse”), from Medieval Latin misinga and spelling variants, from Frankish *meisinga (“titmouse”) and variants, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (“titmouse”), *-ingō (“-ing”). Cognate with Old High German meisa (“titmouse”), Old English māse (“small bird”), Middle Dutch mese (“titmouse”). More at English titmouse.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mésange f (plural mésanges)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mésange”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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