fustaine

Old French

Alternative forms

  • fustagne, fustaigne, fustaingne, fustane, fusteine

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Latin fūstāneum, ellipsis of (pannus) fustāneus or (tela) fustānea, probably from fūstis (“stick”) +‎ -āneus.

Noun

fustaine oblique singular, f (nominative singular fustaine)

  1. A cotton fabric ancestral to modern fustian.

Descendants

  • Middle French: fustaine, futaine
    • Bourguignon: fetaine, futaine, futainne
    • French: futaine
      • → Breton: futein
      • → Esperanto: fusteno (with influence from English)
      • → Luxembourgish: Fitteng
      • → Occitan: futène
    • Franc-Comtois: feutaine, feutainne
    • Picard: futane
    • Walloon: futinne
    • → Middle Dutch: fustein
      • Dutch: fustein
  • → Middle English: fustian, ffustean, ffusteyn, fostyon, fusten, fusteyn, fustyan, fustyane
  • → Old Norse: fustan
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