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 (“sparrow-hawk”, literally “sparrow-eagle”), from Frankish *sparwō (from Proto-Germanic *sparwô (“sparrow”)) + *arô (“eagle”).
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)
Categories:
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old French terms derived from Old Dutch
- Old French terms derived from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
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