estuble

Old French

Alternative forms

• estoble, estouble, stuble, esteule

Etymology

Latin stipula.

Noun

estuble oblique singular, m (oblique plural estubles, nominative singular estubles, nominative plural estuble)

1. stubble (stalks left after cutting hay)

Descendants

• French: éteule
• → Middle English: stobil, stubble, stoble
  • English: stubble

References

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “esteule”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• estuble on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub