sevrance
Old French
Alternative forms
- severance
- severaunce (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Noun
sevrance oblique singular, f (oblique plural sevrances, nominative singular sevrance, nominative plural sevrances)
- separation (act of separating; state of being separated)
Descendants
- → English: severance
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “sevrance”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
- severance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub