abattage

French

noun

Definitions

slaughter or butchering for meat
felling or cutting down of trees
destruction, demolition of a wall

Etymology

Suffix from French abattre (breaks down, beat down).

Origin

French

abattre

Gloss

breaks down, beat down

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

abattage English
abbattere Italian
abat-jour French
abat-voix French
abattable French
abattement French
abatteur French
abattis French
abattoir French
abattre French
abataj Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
abatar Ido
abattre Middle French