gouvreneur

== Old French == === Alternative forms === governeor, governur === Etymology === From Latin gubernator. === Noun === gouvreneur oblique singular, m (oblique plural gouvreneurs, nominative singular gouvreneurs, nominative plural gouvreneur) governor (nautical) steersman ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: gouverneurFrench: gouverneur (see there for further descendants)→ Middle Dutch: gouverneurDutch: gouverneur, goeverneur (before 1996)Afrikaans: goewerneurNegerhollands: guwerneer→ Lokono: gouverneur→ Indonesian: gubernurLimburgish: goevernäör→ German: Gouverneur Norman: gouvernaeux, gouverneux (Guernsey), gouvèrneux (Jersey) Walloon: gouverneûr → Middle English: governour, governor, governoure, governowre, governurEnglish: governor (see there for further descendants)Scots: governourYola: governere === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “gouvreneur”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.