coissin
Middle French
Etymology
From later Old French coissin, from Vulgar Latin *coxīnus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) with the suffix possibly after Latin pulvīnus (“pillow”).
Noun
coissin m (plural coissins)
- cushion (soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag used for comfort or support)
Descendants
- French: coussin
- → Esperanto: kuseno
- → Ido: kuseno
- → Persian: کوسن (kusan)
- → Portuguese: coxim
- → Esperanto: kuseno
Old French
Alternative forms
- coussin, cuissin
- cussin, quissin (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *coxīnus (“seat pad”), derived from Latin coxa (“hip, thigh”) with the suffix possibly after Latin pulvīnus (“pillow”).
Noun
coissin m (oblique plural coissins, nominative singular coissins, nominative plural coissin)
- cushion (soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag used for comfort or support)
Descendants
- Middle French: coissin
- French: coussin
- → Esperanto: kuseno
- → Ido: kuseno
- → Persian: کوسن (kusan)
- → Portuguese: coxim
- → Esperanto: kuseno
- French: coussin
- Norman: couossi
- Walloon: cossén
- → Italian: cuscino
- → Middle English: quysshyn
- English: cushion
- → Cantonese: 咕𠱸 (ku1 seon2), 箍臣
- → Irish: cúisín
- → Japanese: クッション (kusshon)
- → Korean: 쿠션 (kusyeon)
- → Maori: kuihana
- Scots: cushin
- English: cushion
- → Sicilian: cuscinu
- → Venetian: cusin
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (coussin, supplement)