borgno

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• bôrnye (Beaujolais)
• be͟urnyou (Bressan)
• bouênou (Comtois)
• bouârnyo (Fribourgeois)
• bornho, borgnou (Piemontais)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *bornium.

Adjective

borgno (feminine borgne, masculine plural borgnos, feminine plural borgnes) (ORB, broad)

1. blind
2. one-eyed

Synonyms

• avogllo

References

• borgne in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• borgno in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 188: “cieco; cieca; ciechi; cieche” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 80 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*brŭnna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 569