vergue
French
noun
Definitions
- (nautical) yard of sailing ship
Etymology
Borrowed from Norman vèrgue derived from Latin virga (twig, stick, rod, shoot, slender green branch, rod stick, switch, staff, branch).
Origin
Latin
virga
Gloss
twig, stick, rod, shoot, slender green branch, rod stick, switch, staff, branch
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
棒
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- verge staff English
- virga English
- virga Latin
- virgator Latin
- virgetum Latin
- virgula Latin
- verga Italian
- envergure French
- verge French
- verga Spanish, Castilian
- *wisgeh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *wisgā Proto-Indo-European
- envergar Portuguese
- verga Portuguese
- vergar Portuguese
- verge Old French
- enverguro Esperanto
- verga Galician
- vargă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vèrdgette Norman
- vèrgue Norman
- verge Middle French
- veargã Aromanian
- *wizgā Proto-Italic
- virga Istriot