hernois
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Likely a borrowing from Old Norse *hernest[1], from Old Norse herr (“army”) + nest (“equipment”).
Noun
hernois oblique singular, m (oblique plural hernois, nominative singular hernois, nominative plural hernois)
Descendants
- → Catalan: arnès
- French: harnais, harnois
- Norman: hèrnais
- → Middle Dutch: harnas
- Dutch: harnas
- → Middle English: harneys
- English: harness
- → Middle High German: harnasch, harnisch
- German: Harnisch
- → Italian: arnese
- → Portuguese: arnês
- → Spanish: arnés
References
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*hernest”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume Lua error in Module:debug at line 160: invalid volume number
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