English
Gros Ventre
Gros Ventre comes from French gros ventre ‘big belly’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgros ventre‘big belly’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Gros Ventre
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentgros ventre‘big belly’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Gros Ventre
Earliest quotation: 1992, Allan R. Taylor, Problems in obsolescence research: “Persons who have some knowledge of the language often…”
Every English word from French gros ventre
Today it means
noun A member of a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in north central Montana.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French gros ventre / Gros Ventre