guimple
Old French
Alternative forms
- gimple
Etymology
Frankish *wimpil.
Noun
guimple f (oblique plural guimples, nominative singular guimple, nominative plural guimples)
- wimple (headgear worn by nuns)
Descendants
- → Catalan: grímpola
- Middle French: guimple, guimpe
- French: guimpe
- → English: gimp
- → Occitan: guimpla, guimpa
- → Middle French: gymple