oiseau

• ouéseau (Quebec)
• z-oiseau, zozo (Haiti, Louisiana, Missouri)

Inherited from Middle French oyseau, from Old French oisel c. 1100, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis. Compare Norman ouaîsé, Franco-Provençal usél.

Compare also the French oie (“goose”), derived from another diminutive of avis.

• IPA^(key): /wa.zo/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /wa.zo/, /zwa.zo/, /zo.zo/, [zwɒ.zo], [zo.zo]

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• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: oiseaux

oiseau m (plural oiseaux, feminine oiselle)

1. bird

• Antillean Creole: zwazo
• Haitian Creole: zwazo
• Louisiana Creole: lwazo, zozo, zwazo
• Mauritian Creole: zwazo
• Seychellois Creole: zwazo

• “oiseau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012