Words that come from Old French “nic”

27 words across 18 languages descend from Old French nic — including picnic, picnicking, picnicker, picnicky, picniclike, picnicware, pique-nique, nique.

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English (6)

French (2)

Esperanto (2)

Ido (2)

Spanish (2)

Italian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Turkish (1)

Korean (1)

Russian (1)

Dutch (1)

Macedonian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Portuguese (1)

German (1)

Middle French (1)