cotoun

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Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

coton, cotun
cotton, cottun (rare)

Etymology[edit]

From Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطْن (quṭn, “cotton”).

Noun[edit]

cotoun oblique singular, m (oblique plural cotouns, nominative singular cotouns, nominative plural cotoun)

(uncountable) cotton
(countable) a piece of cotton

Descendants[edit]

French: coton
- Portuguese: cotão
→ Middle English: coton, cotun, cotoun; coteyn, cotton, cotyn, kotyn
- English: cotton
- → Irish: cotún
- Scots: cotton, catton
- → Welsh: cotwm

References[edit]

cotun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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