oistre
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]oistre
- Alternative form of oystre
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French, borrowed from Latin ostrea.
Noun
[edit]oistre f (plural oistres)
- oyster (mollusk)
Descendants
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]oistre oblique singular, f (oblique plural oistres, nominative singular oistre, nominative plural oistres)
- oyster (mollusk)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: oistre
- → Middle English: oystre, ostre, ostree, oistre, oystur, oystere, ostyr, oister, oyestere
- → Irish: oisre, oisir (Ulster), eisir, eistre, oisridh (obsolete)
- → Scottish Gaelic: oisir, eisir
Further reading
[edit]- oistre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Etymology and history of “huître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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