Etymology

accouche

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Today it means: To aid in an accouchement; to assist (a mother) in the birth (of a child). Full definition →

French accoucher
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromaccoucher
  2. English todayaccouche

A back-formation from accouchement, or else from French accoucher.

Words from the same roots

Frenchaccoucher all →

accouchement

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.