porte coleice

Old French

Etymology

From porte (“door”) +‎ colëice (“sliding; able to slide”).

Pronunciation

  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾtə kuləˈit͡sə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾtə kul(ə)ˈisə/

Noun

porte coleice oblique singular, f (oblique plural porte coleices, nominative singular porte coleice, nominative plural porte coleices)

  1. portcullis

Descendants

  • Middle French: porte coulisse
  • → Middle English: portcolyse

References

  • Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “couleis”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
  • Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -ëiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 33.
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