eschipre

Old French

Alternative forms

eskipre

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse skipari.[1]

Noun

eschipre oblique singular, m (oblique plural eschipres, nominative singular eschipres, nominative plural eschipre)

sailor; mariner

Descendants

Middle French: eschipre, esquipe, scippre

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “skipari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 118

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (eschipre)

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