Where does “flingot” come from?

flingot (French) comes from French flingue, from French flinguer, from French -er, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier — suffix used to form infinitives of first...

flingot (French): gun

Definitions

  1. gun

Ancestry of “flingot”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchflingueshooter, pistol, gat; first-person singular...
2Frenchflinguerto gun, to gun down; to commit suicide with a gun
3French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
4Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
5Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
Every word from Old French -ierEvery word from French -erEvery word from Middle French -er