English
anoil
Anoil comes from Old French enoilier.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400enoilier
- Englishearliest quotation 1577anoil
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400enoilier
- Englishearliest quotation 1577anoil
Earliest quotation: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England: “Children were also christened, and men houseled and anoiled”.
Every English word from Old French enoilier
Today it means
verb To anoint with oil.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French enoilier / anoil