Words that come from Old French “batre”

95 words across 34 languages descend from Old French batre — including battery, batter, battering, batterer, battue, batterie, battement, counterbattery.

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English (27)

French (11)

Esperanto (10)

Old French (4)

German (4)

Middle English (3)

Middle French (2)

Ido (2)

Japanese (2)

Swedish (2)

Tok Pisin (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Norman (2)

Thai (2)

Hausa (1)

Irish (1)

Korean (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Danish (1)

Greenlandic (1)

Dutch (1)

Indonesian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Italian (1)

Greek (1)

Manx (1)

Burmese (1)

Cebuano (1)

Hindi (1)

Malay (1)

Spanish (1)

Swahili (1)

Walloon (1)

Galician (1)