nimphe
French
Noun
nimphe f (plural nimphes)
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French nimphe, from Latin nympha, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē).
Pronunciation
Noun
nimphe (plural nimphes)
- nymph (mythological being)
Descendants
- English: nymph
References
- “nimphe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-05.
Old French
Alternative forms
Noun
nimphe oblique singular, f (oblique plural nimphes, nominative singular nimphe, nominative plural nimphes)
- nymph (minor female deity)
Descendants
- French: nymphe
- → Middle Dutch: nymphe
- Dutch: nimf
- → Middle English: nimphe, nymphe, nemphe
- English: nymph
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (nymphe, supplement)
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- Middle English nouns
- enm:Greek mythology
- enm:Female people
- Old French lemmas
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