maçue

Old French

Alternative forms

• massue, messue
• machue (Normano-Picard)
• maçugue, maçuge (Judeo-French)

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *matteūca.

Pronunciation

• (classical) IPA^(key): /maˈt͡syə/, (northern) /-t͡ʃ-/

Noun

maçue oblique singular, f (oblique plural maçues, nominative singular maçue, nominative plural maçues)

1. club, baton

Descendants

• Bourguignon: maissue
• French: massue
• Picard: machue

References

• “maçue”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*matteūca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 513