corbeau
French
noun
Definitions
- raven (bird)
- poison-pen letter writer
Etymology
Inherited from Old French corbeau (raven), corbel (crow) inherited from Latin corbellus, corvus (crow, raven) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂wós.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱorh₂wós
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Corbin English
- Corbyn English
- Corvus English
- corbeau English
- corbel English
- corbie English
- corbiestep English
- corvus English
- *corbus Latin
- corbellus Latin
- corvinus Latin
- corvus Latin
- corvo Italian
- corbeau de nuit French
- de French
- nuit French
- cuervo Spanish, Castilian
- βοῦς Ancient Greek
- *ḱorh₂wós Proto-Indo-European
- corvo Portuguese
- corb Old French
- corbe Old French
- corbeau Old French
- corbel Old French
- korvo Esperanto
- corb Catalan, Valencian
- corb Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- corbin Norman
- corbîn Norman
- koppe Middle High German
- korb Albanian
- corbeau Middle French
- corvo Old Portuguese
- corbu Aromanian
- còrb Occitan
- *korwos Proto-Italic
- corv Romansh
- cuervu Asturian
- corvat Friulian
- corbeâ Bourguignon
- kòbo Antillean Creole