cuisse

• IPA^(key): /kwɪs/

cuisse (plural cuisses)

1. Alternative form of cuish (“thigh armour”)

From Old French cuisse, quisse, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”), from Proto-Indo-European *koḱs-. Compare hanche.

• IPA^(key): /kɥis/

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cuisse f (plural cuisses)

1. (anatomy) thigh

• Haitian Creole: kwis
• → English: cuish, cuisse, quish

• “cuisse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cuises

• quisse

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”).

cuisse f (oblique plural cuisses, nominative singular cuisse, nominative plural cuisses)

1. thigh

• French: cuisse
  • Haitian Creole: kwis
  • → English: cuish, cuisse, quish
• Gallo: qhesse
• Norman: tchuisse, tchusse, tchiêsse, tchiesse, kyis
• Walloon: coxhe
• → Walloon: cwisse