gaudine
Old French
Alternative forms
- galdine, gadine, guadine, guardine
Etymology
From gaut + -ine [1]. Cognate with English wold and weald.
Noun
gaudine f (oblique plural gaudines, nominative singular gaudine, nominative plural gaudines)
- woods (woodland area)
Related terms
- gaudin
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (gaudine)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “wald”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z, page 486