estrave
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Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First known attestation 1573. Old French *estrave, a borrowing from Old Norse stafn. The technical nature of the word may explain why it is not attested earlier,[1] as Old Norse had split into its daughter languages by 1573.
Noun[edit]
estrave f (plural estraves)
Descendants[edit]
- French: étrave
References[edit]
- ^ Etymology and history of “étrave”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.