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French words from Latin words first recorded in the 9th century

1 French word inherited from a Latin word whose earliest known written record dates from the 9th century, earliest Latin record first.

1. bois

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   from Latin boscus

   It is inherited from Medieval Latin boscus (“wooded land”), recorded from 704 in a charter of Childeric III, and in the plural “bosci”, which gave “bois” (“boscus” would have given “bos”). The…

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