cucuault

Old French

Alternative forms

cocoualt

Etymology

From cucu, cocu (“cuckoo”), ultimately imitative or from Latin cuculus, + the Frankish suffix *-wald, from *wald.

Noun

cucuault oblique singular, m (oblique plural cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative singular cucuaulz or cucuaultz, nominative plural cucuault)

a cuckold

Descendants

→ Middle English: cokewold, cokewald, cukewald, cukeweld, cokwold
- English: cuckold
→ Irish: cucól

References

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

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