escharpe
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French escharpe.
Noun[edit]
escharpe f (plural escharpes)
- scarf (item of clothing)
Descendants[edit]
- French: écharpe
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly from Frankish *skirpa, *skirpja (“basket made of rushes”) or of other Germanic origin, compare Old Norse skreppa (“small bag, wallet, satchel”). Norse origin is suggested by the variants eschreppe, escreppe, escrepe (compare Medieval Latin scrippum (“pilgrim's pack”), further compare English scrip); maybe a Norse borrowing was conflated with a Frankish borrowing.
Alternatively from Medieval Latin scirpa, schirpa (“little woven bag of rushes, pilgrim's pack”) (compare Classical Latin scirpea (“large basket made of bullrushes”)), from Latin scirpus (“rush, bullrush”). The Frankish word itself may ultimately be borrowed from Latin, either directly from scirpea, or derived from scirpus.
Noun[edit]
escharpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural escharpes, nominative singular escharpe, nominative plural escharpes)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French feminine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French terms derived from Frankish
- Old French terms derived from Germanic languages
- Old French terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns