Lotharinge

Middle French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós

Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz

Proto-Indo-European *ker-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kóryos

Proto-Germanic *harjaz

Proto-Germanic *Hlūdaharjaz

Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdhari

Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Germanic *-īnaz

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

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Proto-Germanic *-ingaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ing

Medieval Latin Lotharingusbor.

Middle French Lotharinge

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Lotharingus, from Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdhari or *-ing. By surface analysis, Lothaire +‎ -inge.

Noun

Lotharinge m (plural Lotharinges)

1. Lotharingian
   • 1549, Premier volume des antiquitez de la Gaule belgicque, page cxciiii:

     Subſignées, Otho, des Lotharinges, des Françoys, & des Germains roy.

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Related terms

• Lotharingie

Descendants

• French: Lotharinge