English
m'sieur
M'sieur comes from French m'sieur ‘syncopic form of monsieur’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentm'sieur‘syncopic form of monsieur’
- Englishearliest quotation 1912same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentm'sieur‘syncopic form of monsieur’
- Englishearliest quotation 1912same form
Earliest quotation: 1912, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, The Scarlet Ibis: “Jack leaned over and swept in one of the…”
Every English word from French m'sieur
Today it means
noun Syncopic form of monsieur.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French m'sieur / m'sieur