Original Borrowings from the French in Chaucer's Translation of Le Roman de la Rose

Author / Editor
Kaufman, Janice Horner.

Title
Original Borrowings from the French in Chaucer's Translation of Le Roman de la Rose

Published
MIFLC Review 1 (1991): 58-67.

Description
Twenty-five percent of the Old French loanwords in Rom are "new to English or used with a new English menaing'; most reflect influences of aristorcratic, secularized French romances. Includes chart of loanwords.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.