fesaunt
Middle English
Alternative forms
- fesant, fesaun, fesawant, feysan, feysaunt, ffesand, ffesaunt, ffeysaunt, phesant
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French fesan, from Latin phāsiānus, from Ancient Greek φᾱσιανός (phāsianós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛːˈza(u̯)nt/, /fɛˈza(u̯)nt/, /ˈfɛːza(u̯)nt/, /ˈfɛza(u̯)nt/, /-a(u̯)n/
Noun
fesaunt (plural fesauntis)
- A pheasant (bird of family Phasianidae)
- The meat of this bird as food.
Descendants
- English: pheasant
- → Welsh: ffesant
- Scots: pheasant
References
- “fē̆saunt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-23.