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- Proto-Germanic*puhô
- Frankish*pokō
- Old Frenchpuche
- Old Northern Frenchpouche
- Middle Englishpouche
- English todaypouch
From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchpoche all →
poach
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.