abateiz
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Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- abatëis (late)
Etymology
[edit]From abatre (“to cut down”) + -eiz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abateiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural abateiz, nominative singular abateiz, nominative plural abateiz)
- massacre
- place where trees are felled in a forest
Descendants
[edit]- French: abattis
References
[edit]- “abattis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 34.