houblon

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French houblon, houbelon (15th c.), from a confluence of two words: Middle French hoppe, houppe (“hopped beer”, 14th c.), from Middle Dutch hoppe (“hops”), from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Frankish *hoppō (“hops”), of uncertain further origin. See English hop for more. Old French homlon (“hops”, 11th c.), from Proto-West Germanic *humilō (“hops”), also of uncertain origin, but assumed to be of Finnic/Uralic origin, as the Finno-Ugric tribes were the first to use hops for beer. Cognate with Old English hymele, Middle Low German hōmel, and probably Proto-Slavic *xъmeľь. === Pronunciation === (aspirated h) IPA(key): /u.blɔ̃/ === Noun === houblon m (plural houblons) hop, hops (plant) ==== Derived terms ==== houblonner houblonnage === References === === Further reading === “houblon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012