porte coleice

Old French

Etymology

From porte (“door”) +‎ colëice (“sliding; able to slide”).

Pronunciation

(classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾtə kuləˈit͡sə/
(late) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾtə kul(ə)ˈisə/

Noun

porte coleice oblique singular, f (oblique plural porte coleices, nominative singular porte coleice, nominative plural porte coleices)

portcullis

Descendants

Middle French: porte coulisse
→ Middle English: portcolyse
- English: portcullis

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (couleis)
Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 33.

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