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CHILD / LATER FORM / attestedAnglo-French · Anglo-French before 1400 · traditional saying

proverbe

proverb, maxim

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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLatin · Latin antiquity · saying compound

proverbium

proverb, traditional saying

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SOUND CHANGE

Anglo-French proverbe continues Latin proverbium with Romance loss of the final syllable.

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The Latin saying term becomes the French and English noun.

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Proverb — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseEtymology: Anglo-French from Latin proverbium

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proverbe → proverbium

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