maçon
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[edit] Anglo-Norman
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /masõn/
[edit] Noun
maçon m. (oblique plural maçons, nominative singular maçons, nominative plural maçon)
- mason; builder
- circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
- Maçons fist querre et carpenters
Si fist refaire les mousters- He searched for masons and carpenters
in order to rebuild the minsters.
- He searched for masons and carpenters
- Maçons fist querre et carpenters
- circa 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:
[edit] Descendants
- English: mason
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Middle French maçon "mason" from Old French maçon, masson, machun "brick-layer", from Late Latin macio, machio "carpenter, brick-layer" (attested 7thc by Isidore de Séville), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *makjo ("builder, maker"), derivative of Frankish *makōn, *makjan ("to build, make, work"), from Proto-Germanic *makōnan (“to work, build, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”), conflated with Frankish *matjo ("cutter"), from Proto-Germanic *matjan, *mattukaz (“ploghshare, mattock”), from Proto-Indo-European *mat- (“hoe, mattock”). Akin to Old High German steinmezzo, Old High German mahhōn (“to make, work”). More at make, mattock.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
maçon m. (plural maçons)
[edit] Old French
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /masõn/
[edit] Noun
maçon m. (oblique plural maçons, nominative singular maçons, nominative plural maçon)
[edit] Descendants
- Anglo-Norman nouns
- Anglo-Norman masculine nouns
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Late Latin
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Freemasonry
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns