suif
French
noun
Definitions
- tallow
- suet
Etymology
Inherited from Old French seu inherited from Latin sēbum (tallow, suet, grease, sebum, fat) derived from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (pour out, trickle, strain, drip, dribble, leak out, pour, leak).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*seyb-
Gloss
pour out, trickle, strain, drip, dribble, leak out, pour, leak
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sebaceus Latin
- sebax Latin
- sebum Latin
- sēbum Latin
- sebo Italian
- sego Italian
- suifer French
- suiffer French
- sebo Spanish, Castilian
- *seyb- Proto-Indo-European
- *saipǭ Proto-Germanic
- *sipōną Proto-Germanic
- seu Old French
- seu Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sevo Old Portuguese
- seu Aromanian
- siu Sicilian
- suet xno