bouclier
French
noun
Definitions
- shield (anything which protects or defends)
Etymology
Compound from French boucle (buckle, curl, loop, curl of hair) + French -ier (forms tree names).
Origin
French
-ier
Gloss
forms tree names
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- buckler English
- rushbuckler English
- swashbuckler English
- buccula Latin
- boccolo Italian
- -ier Dutch, Flemish
- beukelaar Dutch, Flemish
- -eraie French
- -ier French
- boucle French
- bouclette French
- букля Russian
- ло́кон Russian
- bucle Spanish, Castilian
- bukler Middle English
- boucle Old French
- boucler Old French
- buklo Esperanto
- bucle Catalan, Valencian
- buclă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- bokelare Middle Dutch
- -iero Ido
- -ier Middle French