wiket

Old French

Noun

wiket oblique singular, m (oblique plural wikez or wiketz, nominative singular wikez or wiketz, nominative plural wiket)

(Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of guichet
- 1175-1200, Folie Tristan d'Oxford, lines 247-8
  Li fol entre enz par le wiket
  cuntre lui current li valet
  A madman burst through the door
  the servants jumped upon him

Descendants

English: wicket
Norman: viquet
French: guichet
→ Catalan: guixeta
→ Turkish: gişe

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