Etymology

guige

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Today it means: A strap attached to a shield, used to hang the shield over the shoulder or from the neck. Full definition →

Middle English gige ← Old French guige
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The story

  1. Old French · learned borrowing fromguige
  2. Middle English · inherited fromgige
  3. English todayguige

In early uses, inherited from Middle English gige, and in more recent times re-borrowed from (or respelled according to) that word's source, Old French guige.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.