escharpe

== Middle French == === Etymology === From Old French escharpe. === Noun === escharpe f (plural escharpes) scarf (item of clothing) ==== Descendants ==== French: écharpe (see there for further descendants) == Old French == === Alternative forms === escarpe (Northern French) escherpe, eschreppe, escrepe, escreppe, eskerpe === Etymology === Possibly from Frankish *skirpa, *skirpja (“basket made of rushes”) or of other Germanic origin, compare Old Norse skreppa (“small bag, wallet, satchel”). Norse origin is suggested by the variants eschreppe, escreppe, escrepe (compare Medieval Latin scrippum (“pilgrim's pack”), further compare English scrip); maybe a Norse borrowing was conflated with a Frankish borrowing. Alternatively from Medieval Latin scirpa, schirpa (“little woven bag of rushes, pilgrim's pack”) (compare Classical Latin scirpea (“large basket made of bulrushes”)), from Latin scirpus (“rush, bulrush”). The Frankish word itself may ultimately be borrowed from Latin, either directly from scirpea, or derived from scirpus. === Noun === escharpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural escharpes, nominative singular escharpe, nominative plural escharpes) bag, satchel ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: escharpe French: écharpe (see there for further descendants) → Middle English: *scarf English: scarf → Middle English: scrippe English: scrip