Many Old French words can be found by simply looking them up in any modern French dictionary. This glossary lists those words that are no longer a part of the modern French language. New words will be added just as soon as they become available.
OLD FRENCH DICTIONARY
Babel/Babilon - (O.F. n.f.) Babylon, Iraq
Balance - (O.F. n.) balance, liberty, equality
Bannis - (F. n.) refugee, exile
Barbari - (O.F. n., plur.) barbarians, infidels, unbelievers
Bas - (F. a.) low
Bastard - (O.F. n.) bastard, fatherless, illegitimate, substitute
Bataille - (O.F. n.) battle
Beaucoup - (F. p.) much, greatly, many
Befroy - (O.F. v.) sense trouble
Bellique
- (O.F. n.) combat, battle
note: belligerant, bellicose
Bestes - (O.F. n., plur.) beasts, louts, wildmen
Beuf
- (O.F. n.) ox
note: from French "boeuf" - ox
Beuvant - (O.F. v. fut.) will drink
Bien - (O.F. p.) good, very
Bisance - (O.F. n.) Byzantium, Byzantine
Biscuit - (O.F. n.) biscuit, bread, food
Blanc/Blanche - (O.F. a.) white, snowy, Royals (whites)
Blancheur - (O.F. n.) obscuration, a "white-out"
Blemi - (O.F. a.) blemished, flawed
Blesique - (O.F. a.) blessed
Blesses - (O.F. n. plur.) strikes, kicks, wounds, curses
Bois - (O.F. n.) wood, tree, forest
Boiteux - (O.F. n.) limp, lame, cripple
Bon - (F. a.) good
Bon-heur - (O.F. n.) good cause, righteous cause
Boucher - (O.F. n.) butcher
Bousseau - (O.F. n.) bushel
Bout/Boutes - (O.F. n.) end
Branche - (O.F. n.) branch, tribe, line, sect
Bras - (F. n. plur.) arms
Bretaigne - (O.F. n.) Brittany, Britain, Northern France
Britannique - (F. a.) British
Brodes - (O.F. n.) darkness, cloaking
Bruine - (O.F. n.) hot blast, brutal attack
Bruit - (O.F. n.) clamor, fame
Brune - (O.F. n.) twilight
Brusler
- (O.F. v.) burn, bristle (with flame), set on fire
Bueyra - (O.F. v. fut.) will drink, will eat
Bugie - (F. n.) Barbary Coast
Butin - (O.F. n.) booty, spoils
OLD FRENCH DICTIONARY
The Old French language included many words from Latin and Greek word roots and also regional dialects such as Provencal and and Catalan. You can also check under the classical "class." and figurative "fig." listings in larger modern French dictionaries. Old French can also differ from modern French, since words like "fleuve," which now means "river," also meant "route" or "course," in Old France because rivers were often used as the safest "route" or "course" when travelling between major cities, since roads were poorly maintained, and robbers often waited along these routes. Please keep in mind that many figures of speech such as the "oil and the wine," which does not seem to make much sense today, in those days meant the "good things."
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