The story
- French · borrowed frombéguin“bonnet”
- English todaybéguin
Colloquial French béguin (“bonnet”). The verb embéguiner (“to wear a bonnet”) came to mean ‘to have a crush on someone’. The word itself came from beguine (lay nuns who typically wore such bonnets).
Words from the same roots
Frenchbéguin all →
bigginbeguine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.