écrevisse

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French crevice, from Frankish *krebtija (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”). Non-etymological initial /e/ appears to be the result of rebracketing in the Old French plural les crevisses.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.kʁə.vis/
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Rhymes: -is

Noun

écrevisse f (plural écrevisses)

crayfish, crawfish
Synonym: (dated) cancre

Derived terms

écrevisse signal

References

“écrevisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Sampson, Rodney. 2010. Vowel prosthesis in Romance: A diachronic study. Oxford University Press. Page 25.

Anagrams

éviscères

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