coissin
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Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From later Old French coissin, from Vulgar Latin *coxīnus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) with the suffix possibly after Latin pulvīnus (“pillow”).
Noun
[edit]coissin m (plural coissins)
- cushion (soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag used for comfort or support)
Descendants
[edit]- French: coussin (see there for further descendants)
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *coxīnus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) with the suffix possibly after Latin pulvīnus (“pillow”).
Noun
[edit]coissin oblique singular, m (oblique plural coissins, nominative singular coissins, nominative plural coissin)
- cushion (soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag used for comfort or support)
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: coissin
- French: coussin (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: couossi
- Walloon: cossén
- → Italian: cuscino
- → Middle English: quysshyn
- → Sicilian: cuscinu
- → Venetan: cusin
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (coussin, supplement)
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