aune – French noun declension

French noun forms of aune

Noun: aune
Gender: f m Hyphenation:
Singular maune
Singular faune
Plural maunes
Plural faunes

Sample Sentences

  • Puis il la rappela, pour lui montrer trois aunes de guipure qu'il avait trouvées dernièrement «dans une vendue». [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French aune, from Old French alne, from Vulgar Latin *alina, from a Germanic language, probably Frankish *alina, from Proto-Germanic *alinō. Cognate with Old High German elina, Old English eln, Old Norse alin, ǫln, Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 (aleina), and Latin ulna. More at ell. See: Old English Nouns 'eln', Old Norse Nouns 'alin', Gothic Nouns '𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰', Latin Nouns 'ulna'.

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