guerredon
Old French
Etymology
Medieval Latin widerdonum, from West Germanic ( > Old English wiþerlēan), literally ‘again-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin donum (“gift”).
Noun
guerredon oblique singular, m (oblique plural guerredons, nominative singular guerredons, nominative plural guerredon)
Descendants
- English: guerdon
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “guerredon”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.