merlette
English
Etymology
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From Late Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman merlet (from merle (“blackbird”) + -et (“suffix forming a noun”)), or from Middle French merlette (“female blackbird; merlette (heraldic charge)”) (from merle (“blackbird”) + -ette (“diminutive suffix forming a feminine noun”).[1] Merle is from Latin merula (“blackbird”), from Proto-Indo-European *ams- (“black; blackbird”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mer‧lette
Noun
merlette (plural merlettes)
See also
References
- ^ “merlette”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
list of heraldic charges on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Noun
merlette f (plural merlettes)
Further reading
- “merlette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Heraldic charges
- French terms suffixed with -ette
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Heraldic charges