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unusual facts about Middle French


Middle French

There were also some borrowings from Spanish (casque) and German (reître) and from the Americas (cacao, hamac, maïs).


Horn et Rimenhild

Horn et Rimenhild has exerted influence on the later Middle English King Horn, and on the Middle French Pontus et Sidonie.


see also

Pentacle

The words pentacle and pentagram (a five-point unicursal star) are essentially synonymous, according to the Online Oxford English Dictionary (2007 revision), which traces the etymology through both French and Italian back to Latin, but notes that in Middle French the word "pentacle" was used to refer to any talisman.