单词 | norman french |
释义 | Norman Frenchn.adj. 1. The form of Old French formerly spoken by the Normans; (also) spec. Anglo-Norman. Also: the form of this used in early English legal use, following the Norman Conquest; Law French. Also as adj. historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > Norman Norman French1605 Normana1649 Anglo-Normanic1707 Anglo-Norman1818 Sarkese1957 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 22 By setting downe their lawes in the Norman-French. 1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. x. 261 [The] Normans..in vain endeavoured to make their Norman-French the national language. 1797 Encycl. Brit. VI. 667/2 After that the Saxon blended with the Norman French. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. vii. 175 Your speech smacks of the northern, or Norman-French. 1853 J. Morton Ancren Riwle p. xx The English language, as we find it in the time of Chaucer, had adopted a vast number of Norman-French words. 1900 T. N. Toller Outl. Hist. Eng. Lang. 209 For some time the natural speech of the Norman was Norman-French. 1937 Sci. Monthly Feb. 161/1 The simple Saxon words of the stout yeomen and outlaws ousted the Norman-French terms used by princes and barons. 2001 Guardian 26 May (Saturday section) 3/1 Old English was changed enormously by Norman French. 2. The French dialect of modern Normandy and the Channel Islands. Also as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > French > varieties of Gascon1642 Walloon1642 langue d'oïla1682 Limousin1706 Picard1758 Scottish-French1789 Negro-French1819 Poitevin1845 Acadian French1850 Anglo-French1862 Swiss-French1941 Québécois1952 Lyonnais1955 Norman French1990 1990 Eng. World-wide 11 286 Interviews were carried out with older people (both male and female) who still spoke Guernsey's Norman French dialect. 1991 Amer. Speech 66 437 Norman French is dying out, and standard French is used only in some official contexts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1605 |
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