English
furmint
Furmint comes from Hungarian furmint, and goes back to Middle French fromenté ‘a type of grape’.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600fromenté‘a type of grape’
- Hungarianmodernfurmint
- Englishearliest quotation 1958same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600fromenté‘a type of grape’
- Hungarianmodernfurmint
- Englishearliest quotation 1958same form
Earliest quotation: 1958, Thomas Schreiber with Lynton Hudson, Hungary: “[…] the furmint (muscatel) of Somlo, full of fire…”
Every English word from Middle French fromenté
Today it means
noun A type of grape grown in Hungary, commonly used in tokays.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French fromenté / furmint