abateiz
Old French
Alternative forms
- abatëis (late)
Etymology
From abatre (“to cut down”) + -eiz.
Pronunciation
Noun
abateiz oblique singular, m (oblique plural abateiz, nominative singular abateiz, nominative plural abateiz)
- massacre
- place where trees are felled in a forest
Descendants
- French: abattis
References
- “abattis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 34.