écrevisse

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French crevice, from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”). Non-etymological initial /e/ appears to be the result of rebracketing in the Old French plural les crevisses. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /e.kʁə.vis/ Rhymes: -is === Noun === écrevisse f (plural écrevisses) crayfish, crawfish Synonym: (dated) cancre ==== Derived terms ==== écrevisse signal === References === “écrevisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 Sampson, Rodney. 2010. Vowel prosthesis in Romance: A diachronic study. Oxford University Press. Page 25. === Anagrams === éviscères