homard

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French

Etymology

From an earlier form houmar[1], from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German hummer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse humarr (“lobster”). The form homard was probably influenced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch hommer.

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɔ.maʁ/
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Noun

homard m (plural homards)

  1. lobster
    • 1758, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, traduite du Biblia Naturae de Jean Swammerdam, Collection Académique, composée des mémoires, actes ou journaux […] , volume 5 of the series (2 of the subseries), Article III, page 447:
      […] dans les écrevisses & dans les homards, les dents ne sont placées que dans la cavité même de l'estomac […]

Descendants

  • → Russian: ома́р (omár) (see there for further descendants)

See also

References

  1. ^ Observations de Monsieur Menage sur la Langue Françoise[sic] (1672), page 178: houmar, espéce d'écrevisse de mer.

Further reading

Middle English

Adverb

homard

  1. Alternative form of homward
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