mesleiz

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Old French

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *misculātīcius, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre (to mix). By surface analysis, mesler +‎ -ëiz. Rarer than the synonym meslee < *misculāta. An adjective *meslëiz may also have existed, only to be assimilated to the suffix -if, resulting in meslif (quarrelsome) (cf. massif < massiz).

Noun

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mesleiz oblique singularm (oblique plural mesleiz, nominative singular mesleiz, nominative plural mesleiz)

  1. brawl, melee

References

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  • Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 32–33.