oistre
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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; eisir, eistre, oisridh
- → 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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- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Latin
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French feminine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French terms borrowed from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
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