oistre
Middle English
Noun
oistre
- Alternative form of oystre
Middle French
Etymology
Old French, borrowed from Latin ostrea.
Noun
oistre f (plural oistres)
- oyster (mollusk)
Descendants
- French: huître
- Norman: hitre
Old French
Alternative forms
- ostre
- oyster
- oystre
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ostrea.
Noun
oistre f (oblique plural oistres, nominative singular oistre, nominative plural oistres)
- oyster (mollusk)
Descendants
- Middle French: oistre
- French: huître
- Norman: hitre
- → Middle English: oystre, ostre, ostree, oistre, oystur, oystere, ostyr, oister, oyestere
- English: oyster
- Scots: oyster, eyster
- → Irish: oisre, oisir; eisir, eistre, oisridh
- → Scottish Gaelic: oisir, eisir
Further reading
- oistre on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Etymology and history of “huître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.