中英語にフランス語から借用された単語リストはどの英語史概説書にも掲載されているが,本ブログでも簡便に参照できるように一覧化ツールを作ってみた.
フランス借用語の簡易データベースを,Baugh and Cable (169--74, 177) に基づいて作成し,意味その他の基準で9個のカテゴリーに分けた (Miscellany; Fashion, Meals, and Social Life; Art, Learning, Medicine; Government and Administration; Law; Army and Navy; Christian Church; 15th-Century Literary Words; Phrases) .954個の語句からなるデータを納めたテキストファイルはこちら.ここから,カテゴリーごとに10語句をランダムに取り出したのが,以下のリストである.このリストに飽き足りなければ,
please, curious, scandal, approach, faggot, push, fierce, double, purify, carpenter
train, pullet, mustard, sugar, enamel, mackerel, sole, fashion, jollity, russet
pulse, color, cloister, pen, pillar, ceiling, base, lattice, cellar, sulphur
rebel, retinue, reign, duchess, allegiance, treaty, nobility, court, tax, statute
mainpernor, arson, judge, property, culpable, amerce, convict, bounds, innocent, legacy
arm, array, arms, soldier, chieftain, portcullis, havoc, brandish, stratagem, combat
incense, faith, abbey, passion, immortality, cardinal, friar, legate, virtue, convent
ingenious, appellation, destitution, harangue, prolongation, furtive, sumptuous, combustion, diversify, representation
according to, to hold one's peace, without fail, in vain, on the point of, subject to, to make believe, by heart, at large, to draw near
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