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Where does “eschevin” come from?

eschevin (Old French) comes from Latin scabinus, from Frankish skapin.

Ancestry of “eschevin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinscabinusA municipal office roughly equivalent to a...
2Frankishskapin—

Words derived from “eschevin”

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