English
lanner
Lanner comes from Middle French lanier ‘cowardly’.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600lanier‘cowardly’
- Englishearliest quotation 1874lanner
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600lanier‘cowardly’
- Englishearliest quotation 1874lanner
Earliest quotation: 1874, Bayard Taylor, Little Tibet: “The mountains of this country also supply Saker falcons…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁-
value, wild, equivalent, valid, velvet, valuation, vale, avail, wield, fluff, valiant, vail, valour, cuckold, woolen, velour, valorous, lanolin, 42 more
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ ‘wool’
Today it means
noun The lanner falcon, Falco biarmicus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French lanier / lanner