fitchewとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English fitchewes (mistaken as a plural), variant of Middle English fichouse, ficheux, from Old French fissiauls (複数形) and fichau, fissel (“polecat”), from Middle Dutch vitsche, visse, fisse (“polecat”), ultimately (via a Northern French dialect) from Latin vissiō (“stench”). Compare French vison (“mink”).

名詞

fitchew (複数形 fitchews)

1. (obsolete) polecat

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “visse”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute