houblon

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French houblon, houbelon (15th c.), from a confluence of two words:

• Middle French hoppe, houppe (“hopped beer”, 14th c.), from Middle Dutch hoppe (“hops”), from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Frankish *hoppō (“hops”), of uncertain further origin. See English hop for more.
• Old French homlon (“hops”, 11th c.), from Proto-West Germanic *humilō (“hops”), also of uncertain origin, but assumed to be of Finnic/Uralic origin, as the Finno-Ugric tribes were the first to use hops for beer. Cognate with Old English hymele, Middle Low German hōmel, and probably Proto-Slavic *xъmeľь.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /u.blɔ̃/

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Noun

houblon m (plural houblons)

1. hop, hops (plant)

Derived terms

• houblonner
• houblonnage

Further reading

• “houblon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012