quivre
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Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably of West Germanic origin, from Old Dutch *cocar, from Medieval Latin cucurum, perhaps ultimately from Hunnic or Mongolian kökür; compare Proto-Mongolic *kökexür.[1][2] Also see Old English cocer (“quiver, case”).
Noun[edit]
quivre oblique singular, m (oblique plural quivres, nominative singular quivres, nominative plural quivre)
- quiver (for arrows)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cuevre)
- quivre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- ^ “quiver”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
Categories:
- Old French terms derived from West Germanic languages
- Old French terms derived from Old Dutch
- Old French terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Old French terms derived from Hunnic
- Old French terms derived from Mongolian
- Old French terms derived from Proto-Mongolic
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns