fustaine
Old French
Alternative forms
- fustagne, fustaigne, fustaingne, fustane, fusteine
Etymology
Inherited from Medieval Latin fūstāneum, ellipsis of (pannus) fustāneus or (tela) fustānea, probably from fūstis (“stick”) + -āneus.
Noun
fustaine f (nominative singular fustaine)
- A cotton fabric ancestral to modern fustian.
Descendants
- Middle French: fustaine, futaine
- Bourguignon: fetaine, futaine, futainne
- French: futaine
- → Breton: futein
- → Esperanto: fusteno (with influence from English)
- Ido: fusteno
- → Luxembourgish: Fitteng
- → Occitan: futène
- Franc-Comtois: feutaine, feutainne
- Picard: futane
- Walloon: futinne
- → Middle Dutch: fustein
- Dutch: fustein
- → Middle English: fustian, ffustean, ffusteyn, fostyon, fusten, fusteyn, fustyan, fustyane
- English: fustian
- ⇒ Scots: foustie
- → Old Norse: fustan