peonier

== Old French == === Etymology === peon (“pawn (in chess)”) +‎ -ier. === Noun === peonier oblique singular, m (oblique plural peoniers, nominative singular peoniers, nominative plural peonier) foot soldier ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: pionnier French: pionnier (see there for further descendants) === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “peonier”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.