malinjote

Champenois

Alternative forms

• marange, malinjot, marlinjote

Etymology

Inherited from Old French mesenge, masenge (“titmouse”), from Medieval Latin misinga and spelling variants, from Frankish *meisinga (“titmouse”) and variants.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ma.lɛ̃.ʒɔt/

Noun

malinjote f (plural malinjotes)

1. (Troyen) tit, chickadee, titmouse (any of a large number of small tree-dwelling passerine birds)

References

• Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes