Etymology

essoiner

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Today it means: An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another. Full definition →

Anglo-Norman essoigniour ← Old French essoignier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromessoignier
  2. Anglo-Norman · borrowed fromessoigniour
  3. English todayessoiner

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman essoigniour, from Old French essoignier. By surface analysis, essoin + -er.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchessoignier all →

essoin

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