单词Old French
na.: 古法语
网络: 法国人；法文
古法语
Before getting into English the word came from Old French and in moving to English it seems to taken a step down in the world.
这个词来源于古法语，但在成为英语单词后，它的价值不断降低。
The word cement seems to have come into Middle English from Old French and ultimately from Latin.
水泥这个词似乎最早是由拉丁语演变为古法语，随后进入中世纪英语。
Through the front door came an old French flower woman.
从前门进来了一位法国卖花老妇。
Old French picked this up and the word appeared as a Middle English word fol whose earliest written record appears in 1225.
古法语借鉴了这个词，而它最早出现在中世纪英语书面记录的时间是1225年。
The story was inspired by a chance meeting with an old French Duke.
故事的灵感来自于一个上了年纪的法国公爵的邂逅。
Simpson told the Gloucestershire News, "When I opened it, to my amazement it was a note written in pencil, in old French. "
辛普森告诉《格鲁斯特日报》，“我打开它吃惊的发现它是用铅笔写的，而且是古法语。”
pedestal which back in Old French had arisen from a juxtaposition of the French words for "foot of the support"
pedestal（基架，底座），在古法语里，这词是法语”足位“的juxtaposition。
The word fairy is drawn from fay (Old French fee), which itself comes from the Latin Fata, the goddess of fate.
仙灵（fairy）这个词来自于古法语fay（现代法语则是fee），而fay又起源于拉丁词Fata，即命运女神。
In July, the group said it executed a 78-year-old French aid worker it had taken hostage three months before.
七月，该组织宣称处决了一名78岁的法国救援人员，他是之前3个月被绑架的。
So it comes as no surprise that the word funeral came to English from Old French.
于是，看到葬礼（funeral）也是从古法语转变而来，就不会觉得太惊讶。