fesaunt

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fesant, fesaun, fesawant, feysan, feysaunt, ffesand, ffesaunt, ffeysaunt, phesant

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛːˈza(u̯)nt/, /fɛˈza(u̯)nt/, /ˈfɛːza(u̯)nt/, /ˈfɛza(u̯)nt/, /-a(u̯)n/

Noun

fesaunt (plural fesauntis)

1. A pheasant (bird of family Phasianidae)
2. The meat of this bird as food.

Descendants

• English: pheasant
  • → Welsh: ffesant
  • → Cornish: fesont
• Scots: pheasant

References

• “fē̆saunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-23.