English
foulage
Foulage comes from French foulage ‘pressing, crushing’, from fouler ‘to stamp, to impress, to dent’, and ultimately from Latin fullō ‘fuller’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfullō‘fuller’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*fullāre‘to trample, to full’reconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400foler‘to crush, act wickedly’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600fouller‘to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentfouler‘to stamp, to impress, to dent’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentfoulage‘pressing, crushing’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfullō‘fuller’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*fullāre‘to trample, to full’reconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400foler‘to crush, act wickedly’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600fouller‘to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentfouler‘to stamp, to impress, to dent’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentfoulage‘pressing, crushing’
- Englishearliest quotation 2014same form
Earliest quotation: 2014, Lyubomyr Yatsyk: “After stroking you should switch to foulage moving up…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- ‘to inflate, blow, swell’
blood, blow, flower, bless, blade, bloom, floral, bleed, flora, blossom, flourish, folly, ferret, florist, fleur, folio, flor, folic, belladonna, exfoliate, trefoil, 53 more
through Latin fullō ‘fuller’
through Old French foler ‘to crush, act wickedly’
through French fouler ‘to stamp, to impress, to dent’
Today it means
noun A form of massage involving kneading and pressure against the muscles.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin fullō / foulage