gibier
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French gibiez, with change of suffix, and that from Frankish *gabaiti (“to hunt with falcons”), from ga- + *bītan (“to bite”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gibier m (plural gibiers)
- game (wild animal hunted for food)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “giblets”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
[edit]- “gibier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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