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
Galois - (O.F. a.) French
Gand - (O.F. n.) Ghent
Gard/Gardede - (O.F. n.) guard, warden
Garse - (O.F. n.) prostitute, whore
Gaul/Galois - (O.F. n.) France, French
Gebenoise - (O.F. a.) of Holland
Gelee - (O.F. n.) frost, ice
Gens - (O.F. n. plur.) men, humans, people
Gent - (O.F. n.) gentlemen, royal bloodline
Gettez - (O.F. p.) tossed
Gire/Gira
- (O.F. v.) gyrate, spin, turn, turn around
note: from O.L./Castilian/Catalan/Spanish:
gire/gira/girar/girare - turn, gyrate
Globes - (O.F. n. plur.) globes, cylinders, bombs
Glomes - (O.F. n. plur.) conclaves
Gorgon - (O.F. n.) Dragon, Satan, Beast, Antichrist
Goulfre - (O.F. n.) gulf of water
Grand/Grans - (F. a.) grand, great, large, great leader, great army, etc..
Grand Armee - (O.F. n.) Napoleon's "Grand Armee" of France
Grandement - (F. a.) greatly, exceedingly, etc..
Gravee - (O.F. a.) solemn, serious, obstinate
Gravier - (O.F. n.) gravel, sand
Gris - (O.F. a.) gray, cold, dreary
Grogne - (O.F. n.) disappointment
Guerdonnez - (O.F. n.) militarily supported
Gueres - (O.F. a.) scarcely, not much
Guerre - (O.F. n.) war, warlike attack
Guet - (O.F. n.) watch, See
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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