gerfault

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Frankish.

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. gyrfalcon (bird)
    • 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “De tous Faucons [On all falcons]” (chapter 150), Book 5, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini‎, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 203:
      La sisisme ligne est sourpoins. Cist est molt grans, et resemble aigle blanche, mais des oilz et des eles et dou bec est il semblables au girfaut
      The sixth kind [of falcon] is the saker. Those are very large, and resemble white eagles; but in their eyes, their beaks, their wings, and their pride, they resemble the gyrfalcon

Descendants
  • French: gerfaut
  • → Old Italian: girifalco
  • → Spanish: gerifalte
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