Old French Word Roots
The building blocks of English vocabulary. Every root below traces a word back to its Latin, Greek, or older origin — follow a root to see every word that grew from it.
Old French (1897)
balle
1
baller
1
bande
3
baniere
2
baniss-
1
barater
1
barbe
2
barbeor
1
bargaigner
1
bargaignier
1
barge
1
baril
1
baron
1
baronie
1
barre
4
barrer
1
barriere
1
bas
1
bast
1
bastard
3
bastille
1
bastir
2
bataille
2
baterie
1
batre
2
beaute
1
beauté
1
beer
1
begart
4
berfrei
1
bescuit
1
beste
2
bevrage
1
biaute
6
bienfet
1
bigot
1
bille
1
blanc
1
blanchet
1
blanchir
1
blasmer
1
blemir
1
blestre
1
bloc
5
bloe
1
bocle
1
boef
3
boitous
1
bombace
1
bonge
2
bonté
2
bordeure
1
borgeis
1
bote
2
boter
1
boterie
1
bouc
2
bouchier
2
boudin
1
boue
1
bougette
1
bougre
1
boulge
1
bouter
2
bouterez
1
brace
2
bracelet
1
braciere
1
brague
1
braguette
1
braon
1
briber
1
brief
1
brieveté
1
brochier
1
brocour
1
broisse
1
brouster
1
bruit
1
brusler
1
brut
1
buc
1
buef
1
buffe
1
buffet
1
bugne
1
buie
1
buison
1
bullete
1
burel
1
burgeis
1
burgeor
1
busart
1
butin
1
butte
1
cabane
1