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mhd • today at 7:13 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Any reason why they didn't get their own "meat name" then? I thought that the "cow/beef"-"pig/pork" split was due do that, with the initially Norman nobles consuming most of that luxury meat. Thus nothing for "chicken", either. Did "lapin" or something like that get lost?


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card_zero • today at 7:37 AM

Yes, cony: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cony#English

See also the note at rabbit: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rabbit#English apparently rabbits themselves are all French. "hare is indeed inherited from Proto-Germanic."

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kristianc • today at 11:06 AM

We did get poultry from French poulet

larodi • today at 7:34 AM

Chicken/poultry?

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ThrustVectoring • today at 7:42 AM

The introduction of rabbits to England post-dates the Norman conquest.

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