English

New France

New France comes from Middle French Nouvelle France.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of new + France

Proto-Indo-European *nu ‘now’

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Proto-Germanic *niwjaz ‘new’

Proto-West Germanic *niwi ‘new’

Old English nēowe ‘new’

Middle English neowe

English new

Proto-Germanic *frankô ‘a Frank’

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Latin francus ‘Frankish, of or pertaining to the Franks’

Latin Francia

Old French France

Middle English France

Every English word from Middle French Nouvelle France

name A group of former French colonies in North America, existing from 1534 to 1763 in much of modern eastern Canada and the United States.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.